Lee Wind, M.Ed. is the author of the MG nonfiction
No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves and the YA novel
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill. Lee works for IBPA and SCBWI, and lives in Los Angeles with his husband and their teenage daughter, where he writes stories to empower kids and teens to change the world. Visit him online at www.leewind.org.
Paul O. Zelinsky has become recognized as one of the most inventive artists in the field of children's literature. Among his many honors are the 1998 Caldecott Medal for
Rapunzel, as well as Caldecott Honors for three other books:
Hansel and Gretel (1985),
Rumpelstiltskin (1987), and
Swamp Angel (1995). In 2018, Paul was given the Carle Honor Award for Illustration. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York. They have two grown daughters.