DEB VANASSE and her husband live in a log cabin they build in Fairbanks, Alaska. A former high school teacher, she is the author of several children's books and young adult novels including Totem Tale, Out of the Wilderness, and A Distant Enemy.

JEREMIAH TRAMMELL began drawing before he entered kindergarten in the rural Alaskan town of Willow. Currently based in Seattle, he has illustrated several children's books including Three Bears of the Pacific Northwest and Little Red Riding Hood of the Pacific Northwest.