Vikki Vansickle

VIKKI VANSICKLE is the author of a number of acclaimed novels for children including Words That Start With B; Summer Days, Starry Nights; the award-winning The Winnowing; and picture books If I Had a Gryphon; Teddy Bear of the Year; and Anonymouse. Vikki started her career as an independent bookseller and worked in children's publishing for twelve years. In addition to writing, she curates and presents regular book segments for CTV Your Morning. Currently, she lives and writes in Toronto.

JENSINE ECKWALL is an illustrator whose clients include BUST Magazine, BOOM! Studios/Adventure Time, Boston Globe, Lucky Peach, New York Times and Nylon. She has illustrated middle-grade and adult novels, and children's books such as Almost a Full Moon by Hawksley Workman.