Matthew Burgess is an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and poet-in-residence in New York City schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His award-winning first children’s book, Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings, was a Junior Library Guild selection and an ALA Notable Children’s Book. He is also the author of The Bear and the Moon, The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon, Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keigh Haring, Bird Boy, Make Meatballs Sing, The Red Tin Box, and more. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. 

Cátia Chien is a Brazilian Taiwanese painter, public speaker, and the illustrator of celebrated picture books, including The Longest Letsgoboy, The Bear and the Moon, and A Boy and a Jaguar, recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award. Her art has been shown in galleries worldwide. She is also the founder of A Thousand Worlds, a curated picture book directory celebrating BIPOC creators. She lives with her family in Los Angeles. Visit her at catiachien.com.