Matilda Woods grew up in a small town near Canberra, Australia. She graduated from Monash University with a Master's of Social Work and now splits her time between writing middle-grade fiction and working as a youth social worker. She is the author of The Boy, The Bird and the Coffin Maker, The Girl, The Cat and the Navigator and The Girl Who Sailed the Stars. She currently lives in Southern Tablelands, the same town where she grew up, with her four chickens, three dogs, two cats and one bird. Penny Neville-Lee was born in Surrey and raised on a diet of Saturday cartoons and MGM musicals. She gained an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art and then turned her hand to illustrating children's books. The Night Train is her first book.