Alice Pung's award-winning books include Unpolished Gem, Her Father's Daughter and the YA novel Lucy and Linh. She also wrote the Marly books for the Our Australian Girl series and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson.

Sher Rill Ng is a Melbourne-based author and illustrator. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the Light Grey Art Lab (Minnesota) and Gallery 1988 (Los Angeles). Sher Rill's debut picture book, Our Little Inventor, was followed by contributing Thumbelina's illustrations to the anthology Fairytales for Feisty Girls by Susannah McFarlane and illustrating Emma Allen's The Night of the Hiding Moon.