Monique Gray Smith is a mixed–heritage woman of Cree, Lakota and Scottish ancestry. She is an accomplished consultant, writer and international speaker. Her first novel, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature. Monique and her family are blessed to live on Lkwungen territory in Victoria, British Columbia. For more information, visit www.moniquegraysmith.com.

Julie Flett is a Swampy Cree and Red River Métis artist and author. She studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal and Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. She won the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for her work on When We Were Alone by David Robertson, and her book Birdsong won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. She is the three-time recipient of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Award for Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet, Dolphin SOS and My Heart Fills With Happiness.

Lawrence Schimel escribe tanto en español como en inglés y ha publicado más de 120 libros como autor o recopilador, en muchos géneros distintos, entre ellos narrativa, poesía, novela gráfica y libros infantiles. Ha ganado el premio Lambda Literary dos veces, el premio Crystal Kite de la Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, un premio White Raven de la Biblioteca Internacional Juvenil en Munich, y ha sido seleccionado tres veces para la lista Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities de IBBY, entre otros honores. Es también un prolífico traductor literario. Vive en Madrid, España, donde fundó la sección española de la Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.