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 has been an illustrator for over twenty years and has received various awards in Canada and the US for her illustrations. In addition to making maps and illustrating books and magazines, Marlena has fifteen years of experience in Toronto and eight years' experience in North Hastings County as an arts program coordinator, facilitator, educator, and creative community builder with adults and youth from various backgrounds and abilities. Marlena lives in the beautiful town of Maynooth.