Jarrett Melendez is a GLAAD Media Award? and Eisner Award?nominated comic and graphic novel writer, cookbook author, and food journalist. He's best known for the award-winning graphic novel Chef's Kiss, a queer romance set in a restaurant, which he cocreated with Danica Brine. Jarrett has also contributed to award-winning and nominated anthologies, including Young Men in Love, All We Ever Wanted, and Young Men in Love 2: New Romances. Jarrett is currently working on Tales of the Fungo: The Legend of Cep, to be published by Andrews McMeel; Fujoshi Warriors, an action comedy comic miniseries and love letter to both fujoshis and magical girl anime and manga; and a yet-to-be-announced licensed Webtoon. As a cookbook author and food journalist, Jarrett has written countless articles and developed hundreds of original recipes that have appeared in Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Saveur, and Food52. He's written a total of 10 cookbooks to date, including My Pokémon Baking Book, RuneScape: The Official Cookbook, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Official Cookbook, The Official Wednesday Cookbook, The Official Borderlands Cookbook, Persona: The Official Cookbook, and The Official White Lotus Cookbook. Jarrett grew up on the mean, deer-infested streets of Bucksport, Maine, but currently resides in Watertown, Massachusetts, with his partner, Theo, and a collection of Monokuro Boo plush pigs.

Irene Flores is an illustrator, occasional author, karaoke aficionado, and full-time coffee drinker. Growing up in the Philippines, she was heavily influenced by both Japanese animation and American comics. She currently lives and works in West Seattle with her wife and several fat birds. Her career started in 2004 as the cocreator and illustrator of Mark of the Succubus, a three-volume series for TOKYOPOP. She went on to illustrate and cowrite a series of art instructional books, including the bestselling Shojo Fashion Manga Art School, published by Penguin Books. Her other work includes illustrating and inking several projects for BOOM! Studios, including R.L. Stine's Just Beyond: Monstrosity, Heavy Vinyl, and Labyrinth Coronation. Most recently, she illustrated the graphic novel Disney's Mirrorverse: Belle for VIZ Media.