Corinne Demas is an award-winning author of over 35 books, including five novels (The Writing Circle, Returning to Shore), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948–1968), two plays, a collection of poetry, and numerous books for children (Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Littlest Matryoshka, The Disappearing Island). She graduated from Tufts University and has a PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. She is a professor at Mount Holyoke College and the fiction editor of the Massachusetts Review and divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod.

Artemis Roehrig is the coauthor of the children's books Are Pirates Polite? and Does a Fiddler Crab Fiddle? She grew up in western Massachusetts, and spent summers on Cape Cod where she worked at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

After graduating from Skidmore College, she received her master's degree from the organismic & evolutionary biology program at the University of Massachusetts. She continues to research invasive insects in the Elkinton Lab. Jillian Ditner combines her knowledge of science and passion for visual communication in her work as a graphic designer and scientific illustrator.

She earned a graduate degree in science illustration from California State University - Monterey Bay, where she honed her observational skills and pursued interests in naturalist subjects. Ditner lives in Ithaca, New York, and works at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as a graphics editor.