Kwame Alexander is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over forty books, including his Newbery Medal-winning novel The Crossover ; The Undefeated , winner of the Caldecott Medal and Newbery Honor; The Door of No Return ; Becoming Muhammed Ali , which he co-wrote with James Patterson; and J vs K , which he co-wrote with Jerry Craft. An Emmy Award-winning Producer and the Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua, he invites you to visit him at kwamealexander.com and on Instagram and X @kwamealexander. Cassidy Dyce is an up-and-coming author and founder of Writing Black @ The House which centers and uplifts Black creatives across all artistic mediums. Cassidy lives in Charlottesville, VA. She invites you to visit her as cassidydyce.com Rashad Doucet is from New Orleans by way of Eunice and Ville Platte, Louisiana.

He's been drawing comics since his grandma gave him a pencil and some paper to keep quiet during church. Rashad is an Eisner-winning cartoonist and currently a professor of sequential art at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia, where he can often be found listening to K-pop and watching way too much anime. He's written and illustrated several graphic novels, including Art Club, which was an ALA Best Graphic Novel of 2024. He invites you to visit him at rashaddoucet.artstation.com.