Violet Duncan (VioletDuncan.com) is Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation. Her debut middle grade novel, Buffalo Dreamer , was a National Book Award Finalist and an American Indian Youth Literature Award winner. She was inspired to write Where the Wind Blows by her trips every summer, driving from Arizona to her family's reservation in Alberta, Canada. In her current role as creative director at Young Warriors, Violet is dedicated to cultivating spaces for Indigenous performances and practices. She lives in Arizona. Steph Littlebird (StephLittlebird.com) is an Indigenous artist, writer, curator, and enrolled member of Oregon's Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.

She wrote and illustrated You Are the Land , and she is also the illustrator of My Powerful Hair (by Carole Lindstrom), an American Library Association Notable Book and one of Kirkus Reviews ' Most Empowering Books of 2023, as well as American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Books Fierce Aunties! (by Laurel Goodluck) and The Summer of the Bone Horses (by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve). She lives in the Pacific Northwest.