Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, and activist. She is author of several books, including The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, which received a Michael L. Printz Honor; See No Color and Dream Country, both winners of the Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Literature; and Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight, a children's picture book about a cross-cultural family also published by the University of Minnesota Press. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, Gibney teaches at Minneapolis College, where she was named Educator of the Year in 2023. She lives with her two children in Minneapolis.
Leeya Rose Jackson is an illustrator, fine artist, art director, writer, and designer based in Minneapolis. She runs the illustration shop Leeya Makes Noise and is the creative founder of Noisemakers Design.
