Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, DECOMP, and Night & Ox. Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, is the subject of two National Film Board of Canada projects, Flub and Utter: a poetic memoir of the mouth and STUTTER. He is the author of the widely-lauded I Talk Like a River, which won the Schneider Family and Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards and has been translated into numerous languages, and My Baba’s Garden. He lives in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island with his wife and two sons.

Diana Sudyka is a Chicago-based illustrator. Early on, she created screen-printed gig posters for musicians, but currently her illustration work focuses on young adult, middle grade, and children’s books. She has illustrated several volumes of the award-winning book series The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart and Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley, as well as the picture books Sometimes Rain by Meg Fleming, What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett, and How to Find a Bird by Jennifer Ward. Visit her at DianaSudyka.com.