Darcy Whitecrow is Ojibwe and Dakota and a member of the Seine River First Nation band in Northwestern Ontario, where he lives. He practices traditional ways of trapping, fishing, and ricing, as well as spirituality in both the Midewiwin and Sundance traditions. He and his partner, Kim, started the nonprofit Grey Raven Ranch, where they have raised and cared for Ojibwe horses for the last decade to help preserve the breed and the tradition of symbiotic interaction with the Ojibwe people. Darcy Whitecrow and coauthor Heather M. O'Connor previously collaborated on the picture book Runs with the Stars . Heather M. O'Connor is an award-winning children's author based in Peterborough, Ontario. Her picture book Fast Friends , illustrated by Claudia Dávila, was selected as the Canadian Children's Book Centre TD Grade One Book Giveaway title in 2022 and was the winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award.

It was followed up with Friends Find a Way! Her other books include the dual-language picture book Runs with the Stars / Wiijibibamatoon-Anangoonan , coauthored with Darcy Whitecrow and illustrated by Lenny Lishchenko, and the YA soccer novel Betting Game . Natasha Donovan is a Métis illustrator who worked in academic and magazine publishing before focusing on comics and children's illustrations. She is the illustrator of the award-winning children's book series Mothers of Xsan and several other picture books and graphic novels, including I Was: The Stories of Animal Skulls by Katherine Hocker. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Natasha Donovan now lives in Deming, Washington.