Andrea J. Loney 's works include the Caldecott Honor winning picture book Double Bass Blues , the Lee and Low New Voices Award winning and an NAACP Award nominated picture book biography Take a Picture of Me, James Vanderzee! , the picture book Bunnybear , an ALA Rainbow List title VIP Stacey Abrams: Voting Visionary . Her work can also be found in the critically-acclaimed children's poetry anthology No Voice Too Small . Her other titles include Curve and Flow: The Elegant Vision of LA Architect Paul R. Williams and futuristic chapter book series Abby in Orbit. Hazel Quintanilla studied graphic design and illustration. She enjoys putting the bold colors and cute shapes living in her mind on paper. Hazel has produced work for numerous brands and magazines, as well as illustrating over one hundred children's books published around the world.

She's the proud mom to nine dogs and lives in Guatemala with her husband.