Lauren James was born in 1992, and graduated from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2014, where she studied chemistry and physics.

Her first novel, The Next Together, a YA reincarnation romance, has been translated into five languages worldwide.

It was also longlisted for the Branford Boase Award, a prize given to recognize an outstanding novel by a first-time writer. Lauren lives in the West Midlands.

Even as a child, Isabella Grott had an inclination for drawing and painting, that made her enroll and graduate at the art institute in Trento (Italy). After that, she moved to Florence where she currently lives and where she obtained a BA in graphics at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

Afterwards, she also graduated at the Nemo Academy of digital arts. During the years, she has participated to various workshops with international artists, which helped and encouraged her in a continuous quest within the illustration field. She has been selected for an exhibition at the Pisa Book Festival.

She collaborates with various publishers to create illustrated books, on paper and digital, and she teaches at the Nemo Academy in Florence.