Billy Merrell is the author of Talking in the Dark, a poetry memoir published when he was twenty-one, and is the co-editor (with David Levithan) of The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities, which received a Lambda Literary Award.

Merrell is also a contributor to the New York Times-bestselling series Spirit Animals, and has published fiction, poetry, and translations in various journals and anthologies. Born in 1982, he grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and received his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.

He now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his husband, author Nico Medina.

Nick Eliopulos was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, where he grew up on a steady diet of super-hero comics and "non-fiction" books about alien abductions, psychic phenomena, and Sasquatch. Shortly after graduating, Nick moved to New York to work in publishing.

In the course of his thirteen-year career as a children's book editor, he has had the opportunity to write for a number of licensed properties, from Thomas the Tank Engine to Minecraft to DC Super Friends. Nick currently lives in Brooklyn with his husband, a fellow editor, author, and Southern transplant.