Marni McGee grew up in North Carolina and graduated from UNC, Chapel Hill with 'Highest Honours in English' and from Yale with an MA in Religion. She has treasured books and words ever since childhood. She lives in Santa Barbara, California with her husband. Cee Biscoe studied Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, gaining an MA in 2007. She lives in Suffolk with her husband and a small garden full of wildlife, many of which creep and crawl their way into her illustrations.