Kate Messner is the New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty books for young readers. She's passionately curious and writes books for kids who wonder, too. Her titles include award-winning picture books, easy readers, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction. Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is trying to summit all 46 Adirondack High Peaks in between book deadlines.

Margaret E. Powell was a decorative arts historian and a curatorial assistant at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. Before that, she served as a costume historian and researcher at the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. She wrote her master's thesis on Ann Lowe and the hidden history of fashion and was instrumental in bringing long overdue attention to Lowe's work. Margaret was organizing a major exhibition about Ann Lowe's life and fashion before she passed away in 2019.

Erin Robinson is an Emmy-Award-nominated artist and a fashion designer. She studied at Parsons School of Design and the Corcoran School of Art. As a fashion designer, she's worked for Gap, OshKosh, Sears, and The Children's Place. As an artist, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Essence, and the Washington Post. She works in a variety of media, including watercolor, acrylic, ink, charcoal, collage, and digital, and currently divides her time between Washington, D.C., and New York.