Shirley Marr is a first-generation Chinese-Australian and the award-winning author of A Glasshouse of Stars, named a Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year and winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Writing for Children, and the middle-grade novel Countdown to Yesterday. She lives in Perth, Western Australia.

Michael Speechley's debut picture book, The All New Must Have Orange 430, was a Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book and a Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature winner. He also illustrated The Gift, a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book. He works as a high school art teacher in Western Australia, where he lives.