Melissa Abraham is a London-based writer of Ghanaian heritage who writes picture books. She is also a trained children’s counsellor, hobby artist, and tea-drinker who loves chocolate and other sweet treats.
Natalie Briscoe creates joyful art for kids’ books, pattern designs, greeting cards, packaging, and magazines. The concept for this book started with a simple sketch of a bunny playing a banjo. With that, a world unfolded that incorporated her fascination with animals and her love of instruments, instilled by living in Music City, a.k.a. Nashville, Tennessee. When she’s not drawing, you can find her getting lost in nature, working on her budding ceramics practice, or loving on her sweet cats. the world we live in.
Susan Rich Brooke wrote her first book at age six about a mysterious professor with a magical cat, and from there her career path was set. She is a writer, editor, and mother of two grown children, and she lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her talented husband and two fluffy pups.
Lauren Burke is a writer and editor from Chicago, Illinois. Her work focuses on women’s history, travel, and classic literature. She also co-hosts a podcast called Bonnets at Dawn about the lives and works of women writers from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Lauren Gamble is a multimedia writer from Mobile, Alabama. She uses her voice to tell character-driven stories about Black female artists, and speaks through television, novels, and audio stories. This book is dedicated to her nieces Zoë and Milan, two little Black girls who now have the opportunity to obtain anything their hearts desire.
Sally Anne Garland grew up in a small town called Alness in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, at the age of four, was a large mural in crayon on the sitting-room wall. She went on to study Illustration and Graphic Design at Edinburgh College of Art before settling in Glasgow, where she lives with her partner and their son. When she’s not drawing or writing stories, she has fun reading books, watching movies, and going on walks.
Rachel Halpern is a Chicago-area author and editor who’s been making up stories since she could toddle around chattering about the Power Rangers. Unicorns Have Bad Manners is her debut picture book. When she isn’t writing, Rachel enjoys doodling, drinking milkshakes, and playing with her dog, whose manners are even worse than a unicorn’s.
Kaara Kallen is a writer, editor, teacher, learner, and activist. When she is not writing about inspiring scientist-humanitarians, she is working to make the world safer for wildlife and people. She lives in Chicago with her husband, their daughter, and their two cats.
Laurel van der Linde began ballet class at age four. At seventeen, she toured with Oukhtomsky Ballet Classique and Los Angeles Ballet. She loved dancing en pointe, but her feet did not. So she traded her pointe shoes for character heels and danced on Broadway in My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Gower Champion’s Annie Get Your Gun. Now she teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Margaret Littman is a writer whose ancestors came from Poland. She likes to tell stories of people who do things they never imagined they could. Margaret has written for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Preservation magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Moon Travel Guides, and other publications. She conducted oral histories of Holocaust survivors for the USC Shoah Foundation.
