ANNA MENON is an American engineer and crew member of Polaris
Dawn, the first human spaceflight mission of the Polaris Program. Born in Houston, she holds a bachelor's degree in math and Spanish from Texas Christian University and a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University. Anna worked at NASA as a flight controller before joining SpaceX in 2018 as a space operations engineer. She lives with her husband and two children in Houston. This is her first book.
KERI VASEK is a creator and community manager based in Houston. She holds a degree in behavioral sciences from Concordia University Texas and loves writing, exploring, and being creative with her four kids, whom she homeschools.
ANDY HARKNESS is a children's book author and illustrator. His most recent solo works,
Wolfboy and its sequel,
Wolfboy Is Scared, were published by Bloomsbury. Andy's creative passions were sparked long ago by a second-grade assignment to write and illustrate a story. An accomplished animation production designer, he spent twenty-five years at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios, involved in films
from
The Lion King to
Moana. Today, Andy works at Skydance Animation Studios as a production designer on an upcoming series for Apple TV+.
