STACEY MAY FOWLES is an award-winning journalist, essayist, and author. Her bylines include the The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Reader's Digest, Toronto Life, The Walrus, BuzzFeed, Vice, Hazlitt, Quill and Quire, and others. Her books include Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, and Baseball Life Advice, which was a national bestseller and was selected by The Globe and Mail and Maisonneuve as a best book of the year. A former columnist at the The Globe and Mail, she currently writes the Book Therapy column for Open Book Ontario. Fowles lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.

Marlena Zuber is a freelance illustrator and artist. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design and her illustrations have appeared in various publications including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, BUST Magazine and Print Magazine.