Jessie Ann Foley is the Printz Honor-winning author of the young adult novels
The Carnival at Bray, Neighborhood Girls, and
Sorry for Your Loss. Her work has been named to best-of lists by
Kirkus Reviews,
Booklist, New York Public Library, YALSA,
Entertainment Weekly, and many other outlets. She lives with her family in Chicago, where she was born and raised.
Nora Morrison is a SCUBA divemaster and works in the curation department of the Greater Cleveland Aquarium as a diver. She loves swimming with ten-foot-long sand tiger sharks and finding teeth in the shark exhibit there. She is also a former travel guidebook writer, and her favorite spots to dive are the islands of Utila, Honduras; Coiba, Panamá; and Maui, Hawaii. "Morrison" means "sea choice" in the Irish language.
Mika Song is a children's author and illustrator who makes stories about sweetly funny outsiders. In 2015, she received the Portfolio Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She's illustrated six books for other authors, including
A Friend for Henry by Jenn Bailey which received the Schneider Family Honor from the American Library Association.
