Brianna Baker is an actress, improviser, writer, and lover of cheese who lives in Los Angeles, California. Brianna graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University. Her autobiographical one-woman show Bede, about her blissfully ignorant childhood as a biracial tomboy, was named one of the Best Comedy Shows by Timeout Chicago. She co-wrote, co-created and co-starred in the award-winning web series Young Couple. Despite her greatest efforts, Brianna is still not very good at math.
F. Bowman Hastie III is at least as old as Karl Ristoff. He has ghostwritten for such #1 New York Times bestselling young adult authors as Newbery winner Katherine Applegate and Francine Pascal, the iconic creator of the Fearless series and the Sweet Valley series, which has sold half a billion copies worldwide. The first book to carry his own name was Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist, the biography of his Jack Russell terrier, the late Tillamook Cheddar a.k.a. Tillie. Mr. Hastie lives in Brooklyn with Tillie’s son, Doc Chinook Strongheart Cheddar.
