Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of
The Sympathizer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial. His first picture book was
Chicken of the Sea, co-written with his son, Ellison Nguyen, and illustrated by Thi Bui and her son, Hien Bui-Stafford.
Minnie Phan is an illustrator and writer based in Oakland, CA. Her work has been featured by Google, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Public Library, for which she illustrated a citywide reading campaign in 2022. She is the illustrator of the picture book
The Yellow Áo Dài, written by Hanh Bui.