Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl''s Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2018), and the children''s picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li. Her latest book is the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl''s Notes at the End of the World (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2020). Kai Cheng won the Writers'' Trust of Canada''s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.

Kai Yun Ching is a community-based organizer, educator, and illustrator. They are the co-illustrator of the children''s picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, and they edited and published Children''s Stories, a collection of tales written by children, with the publishing collective Quilted Creatures in 2016.

Wai-Yant Li is a Montreal-based artist who works mainly in making otherworldly ceramics and illustration. For the last thirteen years, they have been presenting and selling their work at craft fairs, galleries, and museums in Canada.