Kate Hoefler received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she studied as a Colby fellow. She has taught writing courses at the University of Michigan, as well as at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Noah Klocek's experience includes advertising design and art direction; as well as matte painting, visual development, art direction, and production design for studios such as Industrial Light & Magic, PDI/DreamWorks, and Pixar Animation Studios where he worked on films Brave, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out. Recently Noah has branched out into picture books with his first book CLOUD COUNTRY that came out in 2015.