Liza Kleinman is a writer who lives in Portland, Maine. Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and in the anthology Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories from the Hudson Review. She also writes language arts educational materials for elementary, middle, and high school students. This is her first novel.Brook Gideon is an artist from southeastern Massachusetts. A graduate of the Children’s Book Illustration certificate program at the Rhode Island School of Design, she also has a degree in biology from the University of Tampa. She survived the Blizzard of ‘78, a Garanimals wardrobe from Bradlees, big hair of the 80s, and palmetto bugs crawling over her during the 90s so she could pursue writing and illustrating children’s books. Her favorite media for illustrating are any combination of ink, linocuts and watercolors. Brook now lives in central Massachusetts with her book-hoarding-intervention-counselor husband, their two children, and numerous vacuums to slay the ghost Wookiees arising from two large dogs and a herd of cats.