KATHRYN LASKY has written many books, both fiction and nonfiction. Among her fiction books are The Night Journey, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and Beyond the Burning Time, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. She often collaborates with her husband, photographer Christopher Knight, on her nonfiction books, which have won the Newbery Honor among other awards. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pamela Garelick was born in England. She worked in fringe theater there before coming to the United States where she has worked in television and radio and as an audiobook narrator. She now lives in Greece where she works as a narrator from a small studio in her Mediterranean garden