Carrie Pomeroy has published short fiction and essays in Literary Mama, Calyx, and Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. She has taught at the Loft Literary Center, Metropolitan State University, and in schools with COMPAS. Pomeroy is writing a book of narrative nonfiction for teens.

Joyce Sidman, author of Newbery Honor book Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, and Caldecott Honor books Song of the Water Boatman and Red Sings from Treetops, received the 2013 NCTE Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry. She teaches poetry writing in elementary schools.

Tracy Nelson Maurer has written more than 100 nonfiction books and co-authored an article about back matter. A recipient of the Rudolf Nonfiction Award and an SCBWI Work-In-Progress Grant, she has two forthcoming picture-book biographies and other titles under contract. She holds an MFA from Hamline University.

Mary Losure is the author of The Fairy Ring (Booklist Editors’ Choice Youth Nonfiction 2012), Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron, and the middle-grade fantasy Backwards Moon. A former public radio reporter, she’s now at work on a new nonfiction children's book, Isaac the Alchemist.

Ann Matzke is the co-author of Today’s Picture Book Biographies: Back Matter Matters published in the Horn Book Magazine. She received her MFA from Hamline University. She has published nonfiction books for children and she is the youth services director at Wilson Public Library in Cozad, Nebraska.