Soren Kisiel

Soren Kisiel is the author of The Night Our Parents Went Out (POW! 2017), A Is for Bear is his second book with POW! Kids Books. A long-time lover of the stage, Soren is a storyteller, director & actor in the troop Broad Comedy. When he is not living in Brooklyn, he lives in Montana where he runs a children's theater camp in the summer with his wife.

Anastasiya Keegan learned to paint as a child at a local children's art school in her hometown of Grozny, Russia. In 2006 she graduated from the Stravropol Art School as a graphic designer and later studied in St. Petersburg at the Higher School of Print and Media Technologies as a book artist. Her first book in Russia was published in 2011 and won the Russian competition "Obraz Knigi." In 2014, she devoted herself to working with book illustrations, and has since published a dozen books in Russia as an illustrator. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and works on her own projects as an author and illustrator.