Alisha Gabriel is an award-winning children's book author who loves speaking at schools and libraries! Her middle grade book Funky Fungi: 30 Activities for Exploring Molds, Mushrooms, Lichens, and More won the 2023 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Book Prize for Excellence in Science Books. When she's not teaching, you might find Alisha curled up on the couch with a book, fiddling around in her craft room, or chasing ideas down rabbit holes.

Vivien Sárkány, an animation graduate from Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest, studied cultural studies on scholarship in Java at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta. She spent eight years in Indonesia exploring her passion for visual arts before returning to Hungary. Now focused on illustration, Vivien brings stories to life, crafting worlds and characters. Inspired by all living things, she tries to capture the beautiful little moments of life in her art.