Maryrose Wood is best known as the author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed middle-grade series about a teenaged governess and her three raised-by-wolves pupils. She's published young adult novels, too, as well as 2020's Alice's Farm, which was an NCTE Charlotte Huck Recommended Book. Maryrose taught fiction writing at CUNY-Lehman College and NYU's Gallatin School, and she is proud to serve on the faculty of the Stony Brook University's Children's Literature Fellows program. She lives in Southern California.

Giulia Ghigini was born in a small town in the industrious and somewhat dreary northern Italy. She's always enjoyed drawing, and as she didn't particularly shine in anything else, she sensibly thought to just keep going. Giulia lives and works compulsively in Milan, Italy.