Tamara Macfarlane is the owner of the award winning Tales on Moon Lane Children's Bookshop, Moon Lane Education and Moon Lane Ink CIC. She has over 15 years' experience working with children and schools, and combines running the two bookshops with writing children's books. She currently has series with Hodder, Simon and Schuster, Troika Books and Puffin.

Tamara has judged many high profile book awards (Costa, British Book Award, Muslim Young Writers Award) and has given talks at Bath, Oxford, Sharjah, Chengdu and Hay literary festivals. Whilst setting up Moon Lane Ink CIC in 2017, Tamara was mentored by the University of Cambridge Judge Business School's Social Ventures.

She is part of a diversity steering group for Booktrust, and has contributed to the Booksellers Association's new diversity guide. Moon Lane Ink CIC is dedicated to raising equality in children's Books- equality of access, representation and roles in the publishing industry.

Kristina Kister is an illustrator and character designer from Essen, Germany. After studying Communication Design, she worked as a junior art director at an ad agency in Düsseldorf before embarking on a career in illustration. Kristina’s creative practice includes illustrating children’s books and developing characters and concepts for German TV shows. With a background as a graphic designer, Kristina’s style is characterised by geometric shapes, unusual colour palettes and clear outlines. Working mostly in digital forms, Kristina also experiments with watercolour and pencil textures to give her artwork an analogue feel.