Hannah Shaw is a kitten rescuer, humane educator, author, and unwavering animal advocate who has dedicated her life to finding innovative ways to protect animals. Her project, Kitten Lady, strives to create global change in the way we perceive and treat the tiniest and most vulnerable felines: orphan kittens.
Kitten Lady provides educational media, training resources, and instructional workshops and consulting services that help individuals and animal shelters learn how to save the lives of kittens--in a fun and engaging format.
Shaw is the author of the upcoming book Tiny But Mighty (Penguin Random House, 2019) and the upcoming children’s book Kitten Lady’s Big Book of Little Kittens (Simon and Schuster, 2019.) She has been featured as a gu
Chatfield is an Australian cartoonist and comedian based in New York. His illustration work has been published through Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, Humorist Books, Scribe Media and Libra Press.
His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, The Weekly Humorist, American Bystander, Wired, Esquire, Airmail, Variety and MAD Magazine among others. His art has been exhibited in France, the UK, Australia, and all over the United States.
Chatfield is also Australia’s most widely-syndicated cartoonist, producing the iconic 102-year-old comic strip Ginger Meggs which is syndicated daily in over 30 countries through Andrews McMeel Syndication. He is also the portrait illustrator for Waking Up, the award-winning meditation app
Kiara Brinkman's novel, Up High in the Trees, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Chicago Tribune Favorite Book. Lucy in the sky, her first graphic novel, was one of the Beat's Best Comics of 2021. Rhiannon is her second graphic novel. Kiara lives in the Bay Area with her husband, illustrator, Sean Chiki, and three children. If she's not reading or writing or playing with her children, she's busy working on the perfect playlist for the next big occasion.
Emily Han is a naturalist, herbalist, and educator helping people cultivate their attention and connection with the earth. Based in Altadena, CA, Tongva/Kizh land, her work focuses on intersections of ecology, culture, food, and plant medicine. She is the author of Wild Drinks and Cocktails, Wild Remedies, and the forthcoming Mushroom Hunting.
Damian Alexander is a cartoonist & storyteller who grew up near Boston. Other Boys, published by First Second, is his first graphic memoir. You can visit him at https://damianimated.com
Chuck McKenzie was born in 1970 and is still not dead.
He is an award-nominated author of numerous science fiction and horror stories, and he hopes one day to be described by his neighbours as having seemed like such a nice man.
Cameron L. Mitchell grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. His work has appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Queer South Anthology, Litro Magazine, Across the Margin, and a few other places. He lives in New York and works in archives at Columbia University.
Sarah Mensinga grew up in Canada and now lives in Texas with her husband, three kids, and two cats. Her debut middle grade graphic novel, Kindred Dragons, comes out October 14th! She's also illustrated several picture books, including Heather Avis’s Different: A Great Thing to Be, a New York Times bestseller. In the past, she’s contributed stories to various comic anthologies, including Flight 4 and Flight 5, and worked on animated projects such as The Ant Bully, Escape from Planet Earth, and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. When she’s not writing or drawing, she loves playing board games, going for walks with her family, and asking mythical creatures to solve complex riddles.
Beverly Twomey was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. For over ten years, she has worked as a used bookseller which has greatly expanded her personal Tolkien collection. When she is not lost in the stacks, she can be found drinking vast amounts of tea, snuggling with her two cats, reading fantasy novels, writing in the wee hours of the morning and plotting ways to play more Dungeons and Dragons.
Marcel Feldmar was born and raised in Vancouver, BC—(That’s Canada, eh?). He studied creative writing at Capilano College and then ended up spending some time in an institution called The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and now he lives in Los Angeles where his words often get caught in traffic.
He has had more bands than girlfriends, but now he is married and not playing music, even though he’s been mistaken for Ric Ocasek on more than one occasion.
Marcel is a regular contributor to the Big Takeover, a music magazine based in New York. His musical journalism has also appeared in columns, reviews, articles, and interviews in a variety of ‘zines and magazines.
Marcel’s poetic writings have appeared in one small book of poetry enti
H. S. Norup is the award-winning author of The Changeling Child, Into The Faerie Hill, The Hungry Ghost and The Missing Barbegazi - a Sunday Times Book of the Year in 2018. She grew up in Denmark, where she devoured fairy tales and escaped into books. After living in six different countries, she now resides in Switzerland and writes stories inspired by her travels, set in the borderlands between the real and imaginary worlds. When she's not writing or reading, she spends her time outdoors either skiing, hiking, swimming or taking photos.
