Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections

Jeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based author, editor, and journalist. He is the author of A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Our World (Zest Books, 2021), Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections (Zest Books, 2020 and 2016), Rockin' the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries (Zest Books, 2015) and The Latest Craze: A Short History of Mass Hysterias (Fall River Press, 2011). His fiction has appeared in more than seventy publications including The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, The Saturday Evening Post, and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Library and Museum. He has a master's in magazine journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor's in both journalism and history from Indiana University.

Nicholas J. Mondelli is an English student at the University of Toledo and an aspiring author, poet, and artist. He has been on stage for most of his life, at both the education and community level, and has been singing just as long. He's a hobbyist with his fingers in multiple projects of the arts, including music of which he plays three instruments and collaborates with Boston musician Terrance Reeves. His current project is a biography on his grandfather, the late Italian-American Joe Mondelli, which has taken him all across the country and, soon, to Italy.