Lisa Rogers is a former elementary school librarian. She is the author of Beautiful Noise, illustrated by Il Sung Na, which received three starred reviews, and 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and “The Red Wheelbarrow,” illustrated by Chuck Groenink, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Award and the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award, and was a Bank Street Best Book and a Crystal Kite Award finalist. She is also the author of Hound Won’t Go, a Massachusetts Must-Read, and the co-author of Discover Her Art.

Stacy Innerst is a painter, children's book artist, and educator. His books have been honored with the Sydney Taylor Award for The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come, the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award for Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of RBG vs. Inequality, the SCBWI Golden Kite for Picture Book Illustration for The Music in George’s Head.