Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series, the Curse Workers series, Doll Bones, and The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.

She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award and for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of both an Andre Norton Award and a Newbery Honor. Her new books are The Darkest Part of the Forest, a return to faerie fiction, and The Iron Trial, the first book in a middle grade fantasy series, Magisterium, co-authored by Cassandra Clare. Holly currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret door.

Bill Willingham has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than 20 years. During that time he's had work published by nearly every comics publisher in the business, and he's created many critically acclaimed comic book series, including ELEMENTALS, CONVENTRY, PROPOSITION PLAYER, and of course, the seminal Vertigo series FABLES, as well as its spin-off series FAIREST, JACK OF FABLES, and THE LITERALS. His work has been nominated for many awards, including the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz comics industry awards and the International Horror Guild award. He lives somewhere near a good poker room.

Alisa Kwitney is an writer of comedic romance novels and graphic novels.

She was an editor for Vertigo Comics.

Her master's thesis was published by Harper-Collins as her first novel, "Till The Fat Lady Sings," in 1991.