JEFFREY ANSLOOS is a Cree educator and psychologist, and the Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Indigenous Health and Social Action on Suicide. He is the author of The Medicine of Peace: Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence. This is his first children's book.

SHEZZA ANSLOOS is a Cree writer, educator, artist, and speaker. She is the author of two children's books, I Loved Her and The Fire Walker. Ansloos is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and visual artist.

JOSHUA MANGESHIG PAWIS-STECKLEY is an Anishinaabe artist/illustrator from Wasauksing First Nation. He is a self-taught artist who works in the Woodland art style of the Anishinaabe people.