Deborah Diesen currently works for a small nonprofit organization and has also worked as a reference librarian and a bookseller. This is her first book. She lives in Michigan with her husband, two sons, and two cats. Dan Hanna has over ten years' experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. This is his first book. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, with a brat-brat cat and a loud-loud dog.