Jodie Lancet-Grant is an award-winning publishing professional and children's author. She was moved to write for children after she searched for picture books featuring LGBT+ families, to read to her twin daughters, wanting to see their family reflected back at them. Lydia Corry studied painting at the Royal College of Art. Since graduating she has followed in the footsteps of her mother Sally Gardner and devoted herself to children's books. She is the author of The Pirate Moms and The Marvelous Doctors for Magical Creatures. Lydia Corry studied painting at the Royal College of Art, and since graduating she has devoted herself to illustration. She lives with her partner and young daughter by the sea.