Zana Fraillon (Author)
Zana Fraillon (she/they) is an internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning author of books for children and young adults.

Zana's books have won the Amnesty CILIP Honour Award, the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children, the Readings YA Prize, NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the CBCA Honour Book Award. The Bone Sparrow was chosen as the biennial book to represent Australia for the International Board on Books for Young People.

Zana was born and lives in Naarm (Melbourne), but spent her early childhood in San Francisco. She has degrees in history and teaching and is undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.

Stephen Michael King (Illustrator)
Stephen Michael King has illustrated over 100 books and written many, including: Three, Blueberry Farm, Rainbow Bear and Mutt Dog!. His books are read worldwide and have won a myriad of awards, including the Prime Minister's Literary Award and the CBCA Book of the Year.

Stephen lives and shares a life with his wife, Trish. They happily live in a mud brick house on an island that touches the Pacific Ocean. Together, they curate a creative life (recently seen up ladders painting a mural in a nearby town).

They have two beautiful adult children and a varying number of dogs. Their ten-acre garden grows forest for visiting native wildlife.

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