Sabaa Tahir grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel.

There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her brother’s comic book stash, and playing guitar badly.

She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor.

She likes thunderous indie rock, garish socks, and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her family.

Nicole Andelfinger was crafting stories as far back as when coloring in the squiggles on your composition book was considered cool. Since then, she's only continued to dwell in the realms of magic, monsters, and myth.

When not changing her hair color or writing comics for some of her favorite characters, she works a day job best described as 'emails'. She lives with her absolutely, most decidedly perfect cat in Los Angeles.