Amy Newmark is publisher, coauthor, and editor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. She has edited or coauthored the last one hundred books in the series. Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University where she majored in Portuguese, and spent her senior year editing a newsletter about telecom sales in Brazil and also traveling in northeast Brazil, collecting poems and stories of local writers for her thesis. She went on to run her own hedge fund, specializing in telecommunications and technology companies and stepped in as publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2008. She is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career. Amy is married to Chicken Soup's CEO, Bill Rouhana.

Rebecca Gibel (a.k.a. Kasha Kensington) is a audiobook narrator and stage actress who has performed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camelot (IRNE Award nomination), Urinetown (Denver Post Ovation Award nomination), and Othello. She won the Denver Post Readers' Choice Award for Best Year by an Actress. She is a graduate of the Brown University Trinity Rep MFA acting program, where she was the Stephen Sondheim Fellow.