Hadil Ghoneim is a writer of fiction and nonfiction in both Arabic and English. Her books for children and young adults have won and been shortlisted for the International Award for Arabic Children's Literature, featured in the UN SDG Book Club, and selected among the 100 Best Arabic Books for Young People (2018-2024). She has also written biographies of Naguib Mahfouz and Ahmed Zewail for young readers and contributed lyrics to the children's music album Afratta. Her nonfiction essays for adult readers have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Arab Lit Quarterly and other publications, featured in Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction (2020), and cited in Best American Essays 2021. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her family, and is currently at work on her debut novel for adults.

Ayah Khamis has illustrated many children's and young adult books. A graduate of Helwan University's Faculty of Fine Arts, she published her first book, I love Because I Am a Human Being, at age 21 in Arabic, English and French. Her work has been recognized by the Etisalat Award for Children's Literature, the Children's Book Publishers Forum, and the Arab Institute in Paris. She collaborated previously with Hadil Ghoneim on the book Those Are Your Lenses, Alba!

Marcia Lynx Qualey is a writer, editor, translator, and founding editor of ArabLit and ArabLit Quarterly. Her work to promote Arabic literature in translation, including books for children and young adults, has been recognized by a Literary Translation Initiative Award from the London Book Fair and the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature from Words Without Borders. She is a co-founder of the WorldKidLit initiative, which works to raise the profile of global literature for young people.