Elaine Bickell ([...]) was born and grew up in London until her family escaped the city and moved closer to the beach in West Sussex. Her love of books led her to undertake an honors degree in English literature at Bristol University. After that she worked selling advertising space in Woman's Weekly before becoming a magazine publisher. After moving to New Zealand in 2005, she worked at an advertising firm, Saatchi & Saatchi. She was the winner of the 2018 Storylines Joy Cowley Award. Elaine lives in central Wellington with her partner and three children, Max, Gus, and Greta.

Raymond McGrath is an award-winning animation director and lecturer, animator, illustrator, designer, musician, and writer who has been working in children's television, film, publishing, and advertising for over twenty-five years. He loves gardening, photography, music and drawing, and is the creator and director of the educational preschool TV series Puzzle Inc. He lives in the country with his lovely wife, his two beautiful daughters, his irrepressible son, some cats, and a schnauzer whose legs are made out of springs!