Jessica Wilson is an award-winning author, representation advocate and founder of Tallawah Publishing, a British-Jamaican independent publishing company founded in response to the need for diversity in the industry. She has been shortlisted for the 2017 Aesthetica Creative Writing award and is the winner of a Go Fund Me award for Sofia the Dreamer and Her Magical Afro, a fantasy-poem unravelling the history of natural hairstyles and encouraging children to love all of who they are. Jessica has an MA in Creative Writing from the prestigious University of Cambridge and is the author of Firefly Stars . Rochelle Falconer was born in Jamaica but grew up in Birmingham, the oldest of six kids, raised by her single mum. As a teenager her head was always in a book. She loved to write - and at school the art department was where she felt most at home. Rochelle studied graphic design - and has worked for various design agencies as well as the gaming industry. It wasn't until she took a break to raise a family, that she rediscovered picture books.

Combining her early passion for writing and her love of drawing, Rochelle now spends her time creating characters she would love to see represented in picture books, and dreaming up their stories.