Sophie Masson is the award-winning and internationally published author of over seventy books for children, young adults and adults. She has received several awards for her creative work, including winning the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Young Adult category in the Aurealis Awards, and numerous Notable Books citations in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. A former Chair of the Australian Society of Authors and current Chair of the New England Writers’ Centre, in 2019 Sophie received an AM award in the Order of Australia honours list.
Lorena Carrington is an illustrator whose books have been published in Australia and internationally. Her works are created using photography and digital montage techniques to form richly layered images. She has worked with the likes of Kate Forsyth, Sophie Masson and Carmel Bird, and has illustrated fairy tale collections, picture books, and created covers for novels and anthologies. She also exhibits her work in galleries around Australia, and holds workshops on illustration, books and story. She is recipient of the 2020 Australian Fairy Tale Society award, for her ‘outstanding contribution to the field of Australian Fairy Tales.’