Eric Pinder is the award-winning picture book author of several books including If All the Animals Came Inside, How to Build a Snow Bear, and The Perfect Pillow. He has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches at Chester College in New Hampshire.

Stephanie Graegin spent her childhood drawing and collecting fauna in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Houston, Texas.

She received her BFA in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in Printmaking from the Pratt Institute.

Stephanie now lives in Brooklyn, is still drawing, and has managed to keep her collection down to one orange cat.