At age 11, Dina Wolfman Baker lost her mother to cancer after a 2-1/2 year illness. While she still feels the sadness of her mother’s death, she also recognizes all she gained from her brief time with her mother in her life. It is Dina’s mission to make the most of what her mother gave her. Dina drew from her own experience to write this book with the hope of helping other children who are coping with similar situations. Dina runs Baker’s Dozen Press® and has also written and published Creative License: Summer Sermons on Torah and Living in Community. She and her husband Brad are empty-nesters living in suburban Philadelphia with their cat, Leo.

Rachel Nagelberg is a writer who primarily concentrates on fiction and is in the process of receiving her MFA in Creative Writing at University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in Pif Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly and Collision Magazine. Formerly active as a fine artist, Rachel illustrated Dina's story just before beginning her undergraduate work at University of Pittsburgh. Rachel considers herself a native of both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.