Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout waxer. She’s dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana to California. The author of nearly twenty books for tweens and teens, Mitchell’s work includes SHADOWED SUMMER, THE VESPERTINE series, ALL THE THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK, a novel forthcoming from HarperTEEN and the forthcoming CAMP MURDERFACE series with Josh Berk. She is the editor of three anthologies for teens, DEFY THE DARK, ALL OUT and OUT NOW. She always picks truth; dares are too easy.

Katherine Locke is the award-winning author of THE GIRL WITH THE RED BALLOON, THE SPY WITH THE RED BALLOON, IT'S A WHOLE SPIEL and other titles. Their newest book is BEDTIME FOR SUPERHEROES. They live and write in Philadelphia with their feline overlords and their addiction to chai lattes. They not-so-secretly believe most stories are fairytales in disguise. You can find them online at @bibliogato on Twitter and Instagram and at KatherineLockeBooks.com

Jessica Verdi lives in New York with her family. A graduate of The New School's MFA in Writing for Children program, she is the author of several books for children and teens, including FOLLOW YOUR ARROW, I'M NOT A GIRL, AND SHE WAS, WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND, THE SUMMER I WASN'T ME, and MY LIFE AFTER NOW. She loves seltzer, hot sauce, TV, vegetarian soup, flip-flops, and all animals. Visit her at www.jessicaverdi.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @jessverdi.

Kate Hart is the author of AFTER THE FALL, a young adult novel published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in January 2017. She's also a contributor to the 2018 anthologies TOIL AND TROUBLE (Harlequin Teen) and HOPE NATION (Philomel), and 2020's OUT NOW (Inkyard) and BODY TALK (Algonquin).

After earning degrees in Spanish and history at Hendrix College, Kate taught young people their ABCs and wrote grants for grownups with disabilities. Later, she helped run YA Highway, a three-time pick for Writer's Digest's "101 Best Websites for Writers." She now owns Natural State Treehouses with her spouse, and sells woodworking and fiber arts at TheBadasserie.net. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Fayetteville, she is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation with Choctaw heritage and lives with her family in Northwest Arkansas.

Mark Oshiro is the award-winning author of ANGER IS A GIFT (2019 Schneider Family Book Award) and EACH OF US A DESERT, both with Tor Teen. Their middle grade debut, THE INSIDERS, is out in 2021. When not writing, they are trying to pet every dog in the world.