Julie Flett studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal and Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. She won the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for her work on When We Were Alone by David Robertson, and her book Birdsong won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. She is the three-time recipient of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Award for Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet, Dolphin SOS and My Heart Fills With Happiness. Julie is Cree and Métis and lives in Vancouver.
Lawrence Schimel was born in New York in 1971. He graduated from Yale and now lives in Madrid, Spain. He writes in both Spanish and English, and has published over one hundred books in many different genres — poetry, fiction, essays, comics — for children and adults. His writing has been translated into over thirty languages, and he has won the Lambda Literary Award, among many other honors. His books ¿Lees un libro conmigo? and Igual que ellos / Just Like Them were both selected as one of IBBY’s Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, and No hay nada como el original was a White Ravens selection.