Joan Bransfield Graham

Joan Bransfield Graham is an award-winning poet who can't stop writing poetry. Her poems have been featured in anthologies, magazines, textbooks, and on CDs. Her books Splish Splash and Flicker Flash--shape poems about water ad light--were both chosen as School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and her poetry has been described as "ingenious," "refreshing," and "wonderfully evocative." A former teacher, she lives near Los Angeles, California.

Kyrsten Brooker's distinct, inventive illustrations have appeared in popular and award-winning picture books, such as When We Go Walking by Cari Best, Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia C. McKissack, and Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter, which J. Patrick Lewis praised in a New York Times review saying, "Kyrsten Brooker uses collages so adroitly and with such brio that you feel like reaching in and putting an arm around each of these elegantly drawn characters." She lives with her family in Alberta, Canada.