Tamora Pierce is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 18 novels set in the fantasy realm of Tortall. She is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." Pierce lives in Syracuse, New York, with her husband, Tim, and their cats, birds, and occasional rescued wildlife. Vita Ayala is a queer Afro-Puerto Rican writer born and bred in New York City, where they grew up dreaming of dancing on faraway worlds, fighting monsters on the block, and racing the fish along the bottom of the ocean. Their work includes The Wilds (Black Mask Studios), Submerged (Vault), Static (DC Comics), Xena: Warrior Princess (Dynamite), Shuri and New Mutants (Marvel), and Livewire (Valiant), among others. Sam Beck is an artist living in Toronto, and the author of the fantasy trilogy Verse. She has worked with publishers like Dark Horse and Vault Comics on multiple series spanning across science fiction, fantasy, and horror. When she's not working on her comics, you can find her admiring the forests of northern Ontario.