Meg Medina is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning book Merci Surez Changes Gears, which was a 2018 Kirkus Prize finalist. She is also the author of award-winning YA novels and the picture books Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was a Pura Belpr Author Award Honor Book, and Ta Isa Wants a Car,illustrated by Claudio Muoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Virginia, USA.
Sonia Snchez is the illustrator of Here I Am, for which she was nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Painter of interior art. She has been selected twice to participate in the Society of Illustrators Original Art Show. She lives with her husband, son, and a sleepyhead cat in Barcelona, Spain.