Rachel Piercey is a London-based poet, editor and tutor who also writes for children. Her poems have been published in magazines including The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Magma, Poetry News, The Interpreter’s House, The Tangerine, Poems in Which, The Scores and Butcher’s Dog, as well as three pamphlets, The Flower and the Plough, Rivers Wanted and Disappointing Alice.

Rachel regularly visits schools, libraries and festivals to read and perform her work, encouraging children to appreciate poetry and feel empowered to write their own.

Freya Hartas is a UK based illustrator of children's books. She graduated from Falmouth University with a first class honors in BA illustration in 2014. The same year, she won the international Lemniscaat illustration Award which resulted in the publication of Little Kong, her first stand-alone picture book. In 2012 Freya Hartas won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.