Morgan is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, as well as a social media expert who oversees communications for the world’s largest children’s book publisher. She lives outside New York City, in a house bursting with books.

Laura has loved books since she was barely big enough to clamber up the steps to the bookmobile that rolled into her Halifax neighborhood once a week.#At school, she made her own books out of manila paper, mucilage and crayons. The first story she can remember writing was about a little girl who kept spilling paint and having to figure out how to turn the messes into pictures (a good rule for life).#These days, Laura considers herself very lucky to work in a beautiful library and write her own books. They look more professional than the homemade ones, but the joy of creating them is much the same.#Laura also loves to sing, play guitar (a work in progress) and try to keep up with what her three children are reading.#She makes her home in Toronto where, along with clover and a whole lot of dandelions, she does her best to grow kindness.~Twitter: @LauraAlary1~Facebook: @lauraalaryauthor

Lisa Deresti Betik has been a storyteller since she was small. She used to spin wild tales about invisible, blanket-eating alligators in her room, and she once convinced everyone that the Tooth Fairy had made her fall out of bed. Today she writes fun, fascinating nonfiction books for children. She is the author of Think Like a Goat: The Wildly Smart Ways Animals Communicate, Cooperate and Innovate (Kids Can Press, 2023) and In the Dark: The Science of What Happens at Night (Kids Can Press, 2020). #Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Lisa grew up surrounded by majestic lakes and forests that encouraged her curiosity. She is a graduate of the Concurrent Teacher Education program at Queen’s University, and she loves helping young people learn more about our amazing world. Lisa now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with her family, where she keeps a Little Free Library on their front lawn.

Julia De Laurentiis Johnston loves women. And she loves adventures! She’s had a few of her own, like moving to London to go to journalism school or creating a bunch of podcasts that have won national and international awards. Or working with her favorite publication of all time, Shameless, holding various roles like arts editor and features editor or running the Shameless podcast camp for youth. Now, she sits on their board. Julia’s inspired by women and nonbinary folks who live their lives with joy, grit and vulnerability, and that’s who she was thinking about when she wrote this book – her very first one! Her greatest adventures include being asked to use a sword to cut someone else’s birthday cake while floating down the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul and, more recently, motherhood. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Ria Voros is the author of middle grade and young adult novels that have been finalists for the White Pine Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award, and been a Best Books for Kids and Teens selection. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, though part of her wishes she could go back in time and also get a Master’s in anthropology because she is a story junkie and the world is made of fascinating stories. She is also a college instructor, elementary school teacher and dessert-maker/consumer.#When she’s not writing, teaching or eating sweet things, Ria can be found hiking to the tops of mountains or continuously getting the sand out of her children’s shoes at the beach. She believes in recycling, self-care and hot summer mornings. She lives in Victoria, BC, Canada with her husband, daughter and son.