Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author and public speaker. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique’s writing and her speaking engagements is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Her books include Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills With Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, When We Are Kind, I Hope, Dreaming Alongside and Kohkom's First Drum. She has also created the young adult adaptation of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Monique is Cree and Scottish. She lives with her family on the Traditional Territories of the Lək̓wəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples.
Gabrielle Grimard dessine depuis qu’elle est petite. Sa passion pour le dessin et la peinture l’a menée à poursuivre ses études en beaux-arts à l’Université Concordia et en enseignement des arts à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle entreprend une carrière en illustration jeunesse après la naissance de son premier enfant. Elle a notamment réalisé les illustrations de The Library Bus, qui lui ont valu d’être finaliste à un Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général, ainsi que de Stolen Words, ouvrage qui a reçu plusieurs distinctions : un des meilleurs albums de l’année selon Bank Street College et Kirkus, et le prix Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz de littérature jeunesse, catégorie album. Gabrielle vit à Waterville, au Québec, avec sa famille.
Over the past twenty years, Rachel Martinez has published more than eighty translations in various genres for renowned French-speaking publishers, including novels, biographies, essays and children's literature. She was part of the advisory board of the Banff International Literary Translation Center from 2017 until its dissolution in 2019, and served for several years on the board of directors of the Literary Translators Association of Canada. A mention on the 2014 Honor List of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) and the 2017 Quebec Booksellers Prize (in the 12-17 years old, outside Quebec category) are among the marks of recognition she has received. In 2005, Rachel won the Canadian Governor General's Award in French translation for Glenn Gould, une vie by Kevin Bazzana and was a finalist in 2013 and 2015.