Finn-Ole Heinrich and Dita Zipfel are both experienced writers for adults and for children. Zipfel writes picturebooks, plays, screenplays and novels, while Heinrich has received many awards for his novels and short stories, among these the the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize 2012), the French-German Literature Prize and the LUCHS-Prize.
Halina Kirschner lives and works in Leipzig. She studied illustration and graphic design at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and the cole suprieure des arts dcoratifs de Strasbourg. She designs books and posters and also works as an art mediator in a graphic arts printing workshop and the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg.