Kerstin Hau

Kerstin Hau lives in Darmstadt, Germany. She earned degrees in media systems design and journalism, and has been a freelance author since 2015. As an alumna of the Akademie für Kindermedien (Academy for Children's Media), she loves writing picture books. Her son, who died before he was four years old, taught her that all new things originate in darkness, and that true love is immortal: these are the sources for her stories.

Selda Marlin Soganci has been a freelance illustrator and graphic designer since 2000. She grew up in the town of Naila in the heart of the Franconian Forest (Germany). She discovered her passion for the medium of wood as a student at the FH Münster. Ever since then, she has been painting and drawing, carving and crafting, preferably on/in/with spruce wood. Wood scraps and raw boards are transformed into distinctive pictures and figures, scenes for children's theater, and now and again books, which have won multiple awards.

Tammi Reichel earned two degrees in theology and then moved to Germany for a decade, where she became an editor for an international publisher. She has translated a wide range of books, from art and architecture to cookbooks to young adult novels, including My Family for the War, which received the 2013 Batchelder Award. After raising her family in Virginia, she recently relocated to western Montana, where mountains and forests and waters provide perspective and inspiration.