Dianne Hofmeyr lives in London but grew up on the southern tip of Africa. She qualified as an art teacher. Journeys with notebook and camera through Botswana, China, Egypt, Russia, Tunisia, Senegal, Siberia, Vietnam and Zambia have led to books that have won Sanlam Awards, the Young Africa Award, IBBY Honour Books and the M-Net Book Prize. Her novels and picture books have been translated into Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish as well as most African languages. In 2012 she celebrated twenty five years of being published in South Africa by Tafelberg.
Rob Foote is a freelance illustrator from Port Elizabeth. After graduating from the KwaZulu Natal Art and Design Institution he spent a number of years traveling and working in a variety of creative fields. After a stint in Japan he moved back to SA in 2010. His passion is illustration.