Chris Baker is an author, recovering arachnophobe, and founder of a nature-focused bookshop, Chicory Naturalist. Their debut picture book, On a Mushroom Day, received a Riverby Award for excellence in nonfiction. Chris is also a certified forager and enthusiastic outdoor educator, leading walks in the Hudson Valley bioregion. Running through all of her professional endeavors is a passion for reconnecting broken chains of generational knowledge about the natural world. They live a few blocks from the Hudson River with their spouse, child and two calico cats.

Byron Eggenschwiler is an award-winning illustrator living in Calgary, Alberta. Some of his books include The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt by Riel Nason, Operatic by Kyo Maclear, Coyote Tales by Thomas King, and The Strangest Thing in the Sea by Rachel Poliquin. Byron's work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Walrus, GQ and O, The Oprah Magazine.