Ashley Woodfolk has loved reading and writing for as long as she can remember. She started reading at age five, writing poetry and stories at age seven, and after majoring in English in college, worked in children’s book publishing for over a decade. Now a full-time mom and writer, Ashley lives in a sunny Brooklyn apartment with her cute husband, her cuter dog, and the cutest kids in the world, and she spends her days (and nights) writing. She is the author of young adult novels Call Your Boyfriend, Queerleaders, The Beauty that Remains, When You Were Everything, Nothing Burns as Bright as You, and the Flyy Girls series, among others. She also contributed to the young adult anthologies Blackout and Whiteout and wrote the picture books Beach Hair and My Love Grows. Visit her at AshleyWoodfolk.com.

Naoko Stoop is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her love of drawing began when she was a young child growing up in Japan. She uses found materials including plywood and brown paper bags as her canvas. She is the creator of picture books including Red Knit Cap Girl, which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book, and the illustrator of Woods & Words by Sara Holly Ackerman, a Stonewall Children’s Literature Award Honor Book, and My Love Grows by Ashley Woodfolk, among others.