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Erin Entrada Kelly is a New York Times bestselling author and has won a multitude of awards for her work, including Newbery Medals for Hello, Universe and The First State of Being, and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space. She earned an MFA in fiction from Rosemont College and is on the faculty of the University of San Francisco's Writing for Young Readers program. She lives in Delaware. Kwame Mbalia is a husband, father, writer, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a former pharmaceutical metrologist, and the publisher of Freedom Fire-an imprint from Disney-Hyperion, featuring stories of Black resilience and joy. His debut middle grade novel, Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, was a New York Times bestseller and awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner now in North Carolina, he survives on Dad jokes and Cheezits.
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