MK Reed is the author of the graphic novels Americus, The Cute Girl Network, Palefire, and Science Comics: Dinosaurs. She also writes and draws the webcomic About A Bull. Her work has appeared in anthologies like Papercutter, Chainmail Bikini, The Big Feminist But, and the Swedish magazine Galago. Americus was the winner of NAIBA’s 2012 Carla Cohen Free Speech Award and was a 2011 American Booksellers for Children’s New Voices title. MK lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very tall husband.

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR, was published in May 2019. Maia's short comics have been published by The Nib and in many anthologies including THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS, FASTER THAN LIGHT Y'ALL, GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE, SHOUT OUT, ADVANCED DEATH SAVES and BE GAY, DO COMICS. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.