Ann Angel's publications include books, essays, and short stories, including the critically acclaimed biography Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing and Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty. She serves as the English Graduate Program Director at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Ricki Thompson is a graduate of the Vermont College program in writing for children and young adults. Her young adult historical novel, City of Cannibals, was included on the Bank Street list of best books for children. 

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.

Kekla Magoon is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author of the YA novels The Rock and the River, Camo Girl, and How it Went Down. She also writes historical nonfiction. She is a three-time NAACP Image Award nominee, and serves on the Writers Council for the National Writing Project.