Joshua Furst received a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His plays have been produced by numerous theaters, both in the U.S. and abroad, and he is the acclaimed author of two books for adults, Short People and The Sabotage Café. He has been awarded fellowships from the James Michener Foundation, ArtOmi/Ledig House, and the MacDowell Colony, and has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Esquire, and Salon, among other journals and periodicals. He is a frequent contributor to the Jewish Daily Forward and teaches at Columbia University and The New School.

Katy Wu received a BFA in Illustration and Entertainment Arts from Pasadena Art Center College of Design. She has worked as a Google "Doodler" and as a concept artist for Laika, Pixar, and Blue Sky Animation Studios. She is the illustrator of two previous picture books, Dumpling Dreams and Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code.