Kwame Alexander has written seventeen books, owned several publishing companies, written for television (TLC's Hip Hop Harry), recorded a CD, performed around the world, produced jazz and book festivals, hosted a weekly radio show, worked for the U.S. government, and taught in a high school.

Recently Kwame was a visiting writer in Brazil and Africa. He resides in the Washington, DC, area, where he is the founding director of Book-in-a-Day (BID), a program that teaches and empowers teenagers to write and publish their own books.

The idea for He Said, She Said came during a writing workshop he conducted with thirty smart, funny, feisty, insecure, and ambitious young people in Charleston, South Carolina - which, by the way, is his favorite place on earth (behind Bahia, Accra, and Tuscany, of course).

Daniel Miyares is the illustrator of That is My Dream!, a picture book version of Langston Hughes's "Dream Variation," which received two starred reviews, and more recently, Night Out. Other picture books include Float, an ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book of the Year, which The Boston Globe called "a perfect wordless picture book;" Pardon Me!, which PW declared "Follows in the footsteps of Jon Klassen"; and Surf's Up by Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander.