An avid reader of Grimm's fairy tales as a child, Ingrid Lee enters the world of the imagination with ease. She herself has made sandy shapes on many beaches over the years. And always, she says, she has trouble leaving them to fend for themselves at the end of the day. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, where, in addition to writing, she teaches art and English.

When Soizick Meister was a little girl in France, she loved both real-life and storybook adventures. Soizick graduated from graphic design school in Basel, Switzerland, and has had several exhibitions in Switzerland and France. She created the illustrations for Dragon Tide using a mixed technique involving acrylics, colored pencils and airbrush on paper. Soizick currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.