Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received numerous awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward, T. S. Eliot, and E. M. Forster Prizes. She was the UK Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems, and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award.

Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake, and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, Carol Ann was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry. Julia Klenovsky lives and works as an illustrator and artist in Germany. She creates and researches on a spectrum from queer-feminist to pop-cultural themes and their connections. Her illustrative work has been honoured with several awards, including the Certificate of Typographic Excellence and has been shortlisted for the Young Book Design Award.