Shauntay Grant is an award-winning writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist, and musician. She is Halifax's third poet laureate (2009-2010). Her first children's book, Up Home, won the 2008 Atlantic Book Award for Best Atlantic Published Book and has also been shortlisted for the 2010 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Awards. Shauntay lives in Halifax. Susan Tooke is an award-winning artist and children's book illustrator whose work has been exhibited across North America. In 2003, she received the Halifax Mayor's Award for Illustration, and she is a three-time winner of the Lillian Sheppard Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration, for Full Moon Rising, Up Home, and The City Speaks in Drums. She lives in Halifax.