Katrina Nannestad is the award-winning Australian author of The Girl Who Brought Mischief, Olive of Groves, Bungaloo Creek and Red Dirt Diaries.

She grew up in country New South Wales in a neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children.

Her adult years have been spent teaching, raising boys, perfecting her recipe for chocolate-chip bickies and pursuing her love of stories.

Katrina now lives near Bendigo with her family and an exuberant black whippet called Olive.

Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany, among smells of saltiness and rosemary. She always loved painting and after graduating in Biology she decided to pursue her dream career as an artist.

In 2006 she moved to Brisbane and since then has been happily working as a fine art painter and freelance illustrator. She has recently illustrated Sonya Hartnett's The Boy and Toy.