Holly M. McGhee is the author of the middle-grade novel Matylda, Bright & Tender, Bank Street, and ABC Best Book of the Year. She divides her time between New York City, where she helps bring books she loves into the world as a literary agent, and Maplewood, New Jersey.

Pascal Lema tre is the illustrator of several books for children, including Do Not Open This Book! and New York Times bestseller Who's Got Game? His wife is the dancer-choreographer Emmanuele Phuon. They live with their daughter, Maelle, in Brussels, Belgium where Pascal is a professor at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre.