Elisa Boxer is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, a New York Times–published essayist, and a columnist for Inc. magazine. She is the author of the picture book The Voice that Won the Vote and the forthcoming Hope in a Hollow, her first picture book with Abrams. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and lives with her family in Maine.

Sofia Moore is a Ukrainian-American artist and illustrator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She grew up reading folk tale stories in her grandmother's house and drawing princesses on the back of textbooks. Now she is on the mission to create her own picture books filled with colourful characters and imaginary situations. She loves painting traditionally and layers textures both on paper and digitally, her ideas come from a lot of sketchbook drawings and making up stories every day.