Lindsay Leslie is a current member of 12x12 and the social media/news coordinator for the Austin SCBWI chapter. She graduated from the University of Texas and has more than fifteen years of writing experience in marketing and public relations. Her blog A Book and a Pie reviews picture books and pairs them with fitting pie recipes. She lives with her husband and two boysin Austin, Texas.

Alice Brereton graduated the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2014, where she won several awards. In her free time, she enjoys doodling monsters and trying her hand at stop-motion animation and paper dyeing. A proud Minnesotan, she currently lives in Minneapolis.