Eva Chen, the author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes, is a first-generation Chinese-American who grew up in New York City. She blames her deviation from pre-med at Johns Hopkins University on a love of fashion and beauty instilled in her by her mother, whose perfect bob and lipstick made a permanent imprint on her impressionable young mind.

Previously the editor in chief of Lucky, Eva has also written for ELLE, Vogue, Teen Vogue,Vogue China, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is currently the head of fashion partnerships at Instagram, where she is guilty of the occasional duck-face selfie. Eva lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

Sophie Diao is a freelance artist and Google Doodler.

To help fill her time when she’s not drawing, she makes ceramics and collects houseplants and succulents.

She lives in San Francisco with her dog, Bebe, and this is her debut picture book.