Diane Zahler is the author of over ten books for young readers, both fiction and nonfiction, including the very well-reviewed middle-grade fantasy novels THE THIRTEENTH PRINCESS and PRINCESS OF THE WILD SWANS.

She lives in Riverdale, NY, with her husband, a professor at Fordham.

Mina Price is an illustrator and designer in Somerville, MA. She has a particular affinity for characters and lifestyle illustration, or basically any project that allows her to draw interesting people in cool outfits. She enjoys finding ways to seamlessly marry traditional and digital art, going from scanner to digital to printer to paint and back again. Mina graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Illustration. When she is not drawing, Mina can frequently be found bothering her cats or getting way too emotional over a good book