David McMullin is a full-time traveler and author of picture book Free to Be Fabulous. His poems have been featured in Cricket Media and in many anthologies alongside such authors as Jane Yolen. He received the honorable mention for the SCBWI Writer’s Digest-Ann Whitford Paul Award, is a recent Madness! Poetry champion, and won a Writing with the Stars mentorship with Marcie Colleen. David has previously been a youth librarian, Broadway actor, and educator. David is a proud representative of LGBTQ+ creators as a member of the Nevada SCBWI Equity and Inclusion team.

Aurélie Lise-Anne is an artist working in animation and illustration. She has worked on animated productions such as Klaus and The Adventures of Paddington. She is very passionate about animation and loves the aspect of teamwork that goes into it—she thinks it’s even better when she is able to combine it with illustration. She thoroughly enjoys bringing worlds and stories to life on the pages of a book and being able to hide little surprises and details in her drawings.