Meg Medina is a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and the author of the Newbery Medal winner and Kirkus Prize finalist
Merci Suárez Changes Gears, as well as its sequels,
Merci Suárez Can't Dance and
Merci Suárez Plays It Cool. She is the author of the young adult novels
Burn Baby Burn, which was long-listed for the National Book Award, short-listed for the Kirkus Prize, and a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize;
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of a Pura Belpré Author Award; and
The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, a Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year. Her picture books include
No More Señora Mimí, illustrated by Brittney Cicchese;
Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez;
Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was both a Pura Belpré Author and Illustrator Award Honor Book; and
Tía Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Meg Medina lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Sonia Sánchez is the illustrator of
Here I Am, for which she was nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for interior art. She has been selected twice to participate in the Society of Illustrators Original Art Show. She lives with her husband, son, and a sleepyhead cat in Barcelona, Spain.