Kwame Alexander is an Emmy Award-winning producer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over forty books, including the first book in the Brainstormerz series, Money Talks ; the Newbery Medal-winning novel The Crossover ; the Caldecott Medal- and Newbery Honor winning picture book The Undefeated ; The Door of No Return ; and J vs. K , which he co-wrote with Jerry Craft. He invites you to visit him at kwamealexander.com and @kwamealexander. Cassidy Dyce is an author and founder of Writing Black @ The House, a creative community dedicated to uplifting Black artists across disciplines. Her work is rooted in storytelling, collaboration, and building spaces where creativity and community thrive. She is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She invites you to visit her at cassidydyce.

com. Rashad Doucet is from New Orleans by way of Eunice and Ville Platte, Louisiana. 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.