Susan McCormick is a writer and doctor who lives in Seattle. She graduated from Smith College and George Washington University School of Medicine, with additional medical training in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, where she lived in an elegant apartment building much like the one in The Fog Ladies books. Susan served as a doctor in the U.S. Army for nine years before moving to the Pacific Northwest and civilian practice. She writes The Fog Ladies cozy mystery series, and she wrote Granny Can't Remember Me, a lighthearted picture book about Alzheimer's disease and dementia and The Antidote, a timely middle grade medical fantasy. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two sons. She loves giant dogs and has loved an English Mastiff, Earl, and two Newfoundlands, Edward and Albert.

Timur Deberdeev is a multi-talented artist living in Uzbekistan.