Mahak Jain is a writer and editor. Her picture book Maya (Owlkids Books), illustrated by Elly MacKay, was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a CBC Books Best Book of the Year, and winner of the 2017 South Asia Book Award. Mahak lives in Toronto.

Lindsay Zier-Vogel is a writer and arts educator and the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. After studying contemporary dance, she received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Her writing has been widely published in Canada and the United Kingdom, and her hand-bound books are housed in the permanent collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto. Since 2001, she has been teaching creative writing workshops in schools and communities. She is also a professor for the professional writing program at Humber College and is a columnist with Open Book. Her debut novel, Letters to Amelia, was published in 2021. Lindsay lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Ryan Uytdewilligen is a multi-award-winning author who enjoys writing in a variety of different genres, as well as for film and television. His novel for adults, The Cattle Driver, earned the 2019 Will Rogers Medallion for Best Western Short Fiction. This is his first children’s book. Ryan lives in Coaldale, Alberta.

Linda Ashman is the author of more than forty picture books, many of them included on the “best of the year” lists of the New York Times, Parenting and Child magazines, the New York Public Library and more. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband, son and two dogs.

J. F. (Jenny) Fox was born, raised and educated in southeastern Virginia – that’s the bottom corner of the state that looks like a half-eaten tortilla chip. As a kid, she loved to visit the local library, despite the creepy portrait of Shakespeare near the water fountain. She decided she wanted to write books when she was nine and entered a writing contest suggested by her school librarian.#After college, Jenny moved to New York City to work in publishing. Since then, she has worked as both a children’s book editor and a writer. Her passion is creating books with a funny, slightly nerdy bent – often featuring introverts, underdogs or antiheroes – and stories for boys that speak to their interests without ignoring their emotions. Her picture book Friday Night Wrestlefest explores the fun of a family wrestling night and was named one of Parents magazine’s “Best Books of 2020.”|When she isn’t writing, Jenny enjoys working with the book committee at her younger son’s school to organize author visits and get more books into kids’ hands. She is also an advocate for public school librarians, which are no longer a given in our schools. Her home bookshelf is full of nonfiction stories about people’s lives and history. Jenny also loves to cook and to make up recipes. She lives with her husband and two sons in Brooklyn and upstate New York.|Facebook: @j.f.foxbooks Instagram: @j.f.foxbooks