Lisa Edwards is an author, editor and former publisher of children's books. Across her 25-year career, she published many award-winning and bestselling titles, including Stick Man by Julia Donaldson, the Tom Gates series, His Dark Materials, The Hunger Games and Horrible Histories. Lisa and her teams have won many prestigious awards including the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals, the Waterstones Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Royal Society Prize and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize (now the Lollies)

Sandhya Prabhat is an independent animator and illustrator. She earned her MFA in Animation and Digital Arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia, and a BA in literature from Stella Maris College. Sandhya has illustrated many children's books, including Ani's Light. She lives in the Bay Area, California.