Charlotte Gastaut is a French illustrator with numerous picture books, novels and nonfiction titles to her name. She created the artwork for Fendi's 2016 Autumn haute couture collection. Edwige-Renée Dro is a writer, literary translator (French and English), and a literary activist from Côte d'Ivoire. She is one of the laureates of the Africa39 project, and her writings have been published by Bloomsbury, Ankara Press, Myriad Editions, Popula, and many others.