Dinah Johnson is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote, illustrated by Jerry Jordan, and H Is for Harlem, illustrated by April Harrison, which was named a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and a Horn Book Fanfare selection. A professor of literature at the University of South Carolina, she lives in Columbia and invites you to visit her at dinahjohnsonbooks.com.

Laura Freeman is the acclaimed illustrator of the New York Times bestseller Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, which received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children. She has illustrated over thirty books for young readers. A native New Yorker residing in Atlanta with her family, she invites you to visit her website: lfreemanart.com.