Brandon Sanderson is the author of several bestselling books, including the Mistborn saga; the Stormlight Archive novels; and other novels, including The Rithmatist, the Reckoners series, and the Skyward series. He won a Hugo Award for The Emperor’s Soul, a novella set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he completed Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time®. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.

Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of the New York Times–bestselling Amulet graphic novel series. He is also the editor/art director/cover artist of the Explorer and Flight comic anthologies, and the creator of the webcomic Copper. His debut graphic novel, Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, won a YALSA Best Books for Young Adults Award. In 2012, he illustrated the covers for the Harry Potter fifteenth-anniversary-edition paperbacks. Kazu is married to author Amy Kim Kibuishi. They reside in the Texas Hill Country with their two children.