Maura is an award-winning author and playwright based in Canberra. When she's not busy writing, Maura visits schools and libraries as a guest reader and speaker, serves as a Role Model for Books in Homes Australia, and contributes reviews for the Children's Book Council of Australia's online magazine, Reading Time. In an earlier life, Maura was an ethicist, business owner and Editor of Australian Medicine. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy, specialising in ethics.

Jorge is a designer and illustrator who began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil, and hasn't stopped since! Inspired by a weird mix of elements, such as 90s cartoons, comics, mid-century design and street photography, he works both traditionally and digitally for both publishing and a wide range of commercial projects. His work is character-based, colourful, whimsical, and always tells a story. When he is not drawing or designing, he can be found lost in a bookshop buying more books to read, sketching people in coffee shops, or trying to befriend each cat he finds! Jorge lives in Spain.