Winsome Bingham is a soul food connoisseur, master cook, and disabled US Army war veteran. She has over fifteen years of teaching experience, and holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She is the author of the picture book Soul Food Sunday , which received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor; with Wiley Blevins and illustrator Jason Griffin, she coauthored The Table , which received four starred reviews. You can find her at binghamwrites.com. Briana Mukodiri Uchendu is an illustrator, visual development artist, and a first-generation Nigerian-American. Her work is inspired by her interests in folklore, film, and animation and her passion to highlight voices that usually go unheard. Her work as an illustrator includes The Talk by Alicia D.

Williams, We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams, and Night Market by Seina Wedlick. She lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas.