Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and the bestselling author of Buffalo Fluffalo and Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo, illustrated by Erin Kraan, and Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She wrote for eight years for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has written for the Emmy Awards, the Academy Awards, and the 2020 Democratic National Convention. She is head writer and executive producer of the Writers Guild Award nominated Yearly Departed, an Amazon comedy special, and is adapting Nobody Will Tell You This but Me into a feature film. She lives with her husband and two children in New York.

Erin Kraan is a bestselling illustrator, woodcutter, and printmaker. She loves the process of carving her characters into wood and seeing how their quirky and whimsical identities come to life through the ink in the prints. She has illustrated many picture books including the #1 New York Times bestselling Buffalo Fluffalo and the Indie Bestseller Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo by Bess Kalb, Jingle: How the Littlest Reindeer Earned Her Bells by MacKenzie Cadenhead, and A Bear and Hare series by Jory John. Erin lives in Vancouver, Canada.