Kate Coombs is an award-winning author of original fairy tales, poems, and middle grade fantasy novels. She is also the author of Chronicle's critically acclaimed Water Sings Blue.

Coombs has worked as a K-12 and college teacher, and is currently an education editor for a small publisher. She also blogs about children's books at Book Aunt.

Growing up in southern Alabama, Lee Gatlin's favorite things to draw were monsters, and they still are.

Lee makes monsters and art in Athens, Georgia, where he lives with his wife, son, and two cats, who are all very tolerant of his occasional banjo racket.