Jill Neimark is an author of fiction and nonfiction, an award-winning science journalist, and a contributing editor to Discover Magazine.

Marcella Bakur Weiner, EdD, PhD , is a fellow of the APA and professor adjunct at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She is also president of the Mapleton-Midwood Community Mental Health Center and was chief staff psychologist at the Park Slope Children's Center in Brooklyn, NY.

JoAnn Adinolfi was born in New York City, on Staten Island. She is the author-illustrator of Tina's Diner and is the illustrator of Halloween Hoots and Howls and The Perfect Thanksgiving, among dozens of other children's books.