Esta Spalding is the author of two books for young readers - Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts, which was shortlisted for both the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award and the BC Red Cedar Award, and Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts - as well as several novels and poetry books for adults.

She is a full-time television writer who wrote for HBO's Masters of Sex, and has garnered many screenwriting awards. When she's not writing, she kayaks, bakes, and assembles whale skeletons with her husband, a marine biologist. She lives in California with her family.

Sydney Smith has illustrated multiple children’s books, including Small in the City, Town Is by the Sea, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, The White Cat and the Monk, written by Jo Ellen Bogart, and the acclaimed Footpath Flowers, which was a New York Times Children’s Book of the Year and a winner of the Governor General Award for Illustration.

Born in Nova Scotia in Canada, Sydney now lives in Toronto with his wife and son.