Melanie has been writing full-time since 2010 and has written a bunch of books, but she's probably best known for her picture books Missing Nimama, which won the 2016 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, and Stolen Words, which won the 2018 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award. In her spare time, Melanie plays guitar, reads manga, collects vinyl, listens to really loud rock music and slightly quieter K-pop, gets tattoos and drinks too much coffee. She lives in Toronto with her family. Hawlii Pichette is a Mushkego Cree (Treaty 9) urban mixed-blood artist and illustrator. Born and raised in the small community of Cochrane, Ontario, she is deeply influenced by her culture, upbringing and the natural world. She lives in London, Ontario.