Katrina Nannestad is the award-winning Australian author of The Girl Who Brought Mischief, Olive of Groves, Bungaloo Creek and Red Dirt Diaries.

She grew up in country New South Wales in a neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children.

Her adult years have been spent teaching, raising boys, perfecting her recipe for chocolate-chip bickies and pursuing her love of stories.

Katrina now lives near Bendigo with her family and an exuberant black whippet called Olive.

Makoto Koji is a Japanese illustrator and animator, born in Hiroshima in the Year of the Rabbit and raised in the wilderness of rural Queensland.

Her work draws from a unique upbringing of both Eastern and Western sensibilities and she finds inspiration in fairytales, animals and all things sweet.

Makoto has a Bachelor of Animation from Griffith University, and now works on many exciting projects for some of Australia’s leading animation studios as well as producing illustrations for books, children’s toys and editorial.