Linda Burgess is the author of three novels, three non-fiction titles and one collection of short stories. She is a monthly television reviewer on Radio New Zealand on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, and she was a television and film reviewer at the Dominion Post for several years. She's won a number of literary awards and has been a judge for a number of our national awards. She was shortlisted in the Voyager Media Awards 2019 for one of her essays recently published on The Spinoff. She lives in Wellington.

Hilary Jean Tapper is a picture book illustrator, perpetually enchanted by the magic of watercolour and small folk. She has drawn small persons since she herself was a small person – and you’ll find such characters on everything she touches!

Hilary also works as a children’s arts therapist and teaches dollmaking (Courage Dolls) with the theme of courage. Her work seeks to inspire connection within ourselves, with those around us, and the greater world we are a part of.