Stephanie Ledyard

Stephanie Parsley Ledyard is a writer, poet, and teacher. She received an MFA in writing for children and young adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Stephanie's first picture book, Pie Is for Sharing, illustrated by Jason Chin, was published in 2018 to wide acclaim, receiving four starred reviews. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her family. You can find her online at stephanieledyard.com

Chris Sasaki is an illustrator and art director living in Oakland, California. Formerly, he worked at Pixar, where he did character design on Monsters University and Inside Out. Chris was also the production designer for the Oscar-nominated short film Weekends. His illustrations for Julie Leung's Paper Son won the Dilys Evans Founder Award, celebrating the year's most promising new talent. Chris has worked for animation studios like Jim Henson, Laika, and Tonko House, and his work has appeared in The New York Times and the Society of Illustrators annual. Visit his website at csasaki.com