JaNay Brown-Wood is an early childhood professor and the author of several books for children, including Shhh! The Baby's Asleep and Grandma's Tiny House. She also contributed to the poetry anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude. Much of JaNay's work is intended to celebrate casual diversity, primaril...

JaNay Brown-Wood is an early childhood professor and the author of several books for children, including Shhh! The Baby's Asleep and Grandma's Tiny House. She also contributed to the poetry anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude. Much of JaNay's work is intended to celebrate casual diversity, primarily featuring Black characters. JaNay lives in California.

Anastasia Magloire Williams is a visual communicator who considers herself more of a storyteller than simply a designer or an artist. Using a unique blend of graphic, illustrative, and painterly illustration, she believes that style should always serve the story, or concept. She has a B.F.A in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and lives in Florida.