Beth Guckenberger lives with her family in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she serves as coexecutive director of Back2Back Ministries, an international orphan care organization. She and her husband have raised eleven biological, foster, and adopted children. Beth is the author of over fifteen books and speaks regularly at conferences, youth gatherings, and church services.

Irina Mileo was born in Tuscany and lives there with her family, including her strange cat Sir Boo and her little girl. Trained as an engineer, Irina now constructs imaginative, colorful worlds for children, just like the worlds that so inspired her as a child.