Marjorie Agosín is the Pura Belpré Award–winning author of I Lived on Butterfly Hill and The Maps of Memory. Raised in Chile, her family moved to the United States to escape the horrors of the Pinochet takeover of their country.

She has received the Letras de Oro Prize for her poetry, and her writings about—and humanitarian work for—women in Chile have been the focus of feature articles in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Ms. magazine. She has also won the Latino Literature Prize for her poetry. She is a Spanish professor at Wellesley College.

Lee White is the illustrator of many books for children, including I Lived on Butterfly Hillaby Marjorie AgosYn, winner of the Pura BelprU Award; The Lost Track of Timeaby Paige Britt; Arctic Whiteaby Danna Smith; and, most recently, Emma and the Whale by Julie Case. He lives with his wife and son in Portland, Oregon, where the wind makes his umbrella useless when it rains.