María García Esperón was born in Mexico City and has won many awards including the Hispanic American Poetry Award for Children. Her novel
Dido for Aeneas was selected in 2016 on the IBBY Honour List.
Amanda Mijangos was born in Mexico City and is the founder of the illustration studio Cuarto para las 3. Her work has been recognized with awards several times and in 2017 she was the winner of the VIII Iberoamerica Illustra Catalog.
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from South Texas. Among his multiple award-winning books are
Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico, and
They Call Me Güero. In 2017, David was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.