Libby Hathorn is an award-winning author and poet of more than fifty books for children, young adults, and adult readers.

Translated into several languages and adapted for both stage and screen, her work has won honours in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Holland.

In 2014 she won The Alice Award, a national award given to 'a woman who has made a distinguished and long term contribution to Australian literature.'

Mel Pearce is an artist and illustrator who likes scribbling in detail. She takes inspiration from games, Japanese animation, machinery, childhood nostalgia, elephants, fish and teeth, to name a few things.

Her work has appeared in literary magazines dotdotdash and Voiceworks and was featured on the West Australian Young Readers Book Award poster for 2017. Mel was born in Subiaco, grew up in Darwin and lives in Perth's northern suburbs.