Keller, Kim
Kim Keller started her career as a manager and buyer of children’s titles for an independent bookstore. Desiring to learn the publishing side, she was hired by Houghton Mifflin in Boston, working alongside some of the trade’s finest children’s book editors and rising to the role of Managing Editor. She has since worked for Chronicle Books and Ten Speed/Tricycle Press, as well as other small presses on a freelance basis. Her authors have garnered some of the industry’s top literary honors, including the Robert F. Sibert Medal for Best Nonfiction Book for Children. Children’s books remain Kim’s passion, as they bring together fine writing and the world of art and book design.
Wallace, Daniel
Daniel Wallace lives, writes, and draws in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His illustrations have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Italian Vanity Fair, and many other magazines and books, including Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensible Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers, by George Singleton. He is also a novelist.