Jordan Scott is a poet and children’s author. His debut children’s book, I Talk Like a River, was a Schneider Family Book Award recipient, a New York Times Best Children’s Book, and has been translated into nineteen languages. His other picture books include My Baba’s Garden, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, and Angela’s Glacier, which received four starred reviews. He lives on Vancouver Island and teaches at the UBC School of Creative Writing.
Jamal Saeed is an activist, editor, visual artist, and author who spent years as a prisoner of conscience in Syria before fleeing to Canada with his family as refugees in 2016. He continues to raise awareness about Syria’s ongoing civil war and humanitarian crisis through his work. This is his first picture book. Jamal lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Zahra Marwan grew up in two deserts: one close to the sea in Kuwait, the other close to the mountains in New Mexico. She is the author-illustrator of Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book, an NPR Best Book and recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats Honor for Illustration. Zahra lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she keeps a small studio at the Harwood Art Center.
