Sherri Maret is a former English teacher/library media specialist. Lela and the Butterflies with co-author Tim Maret was released in 2020 and shares their love for butterflies and butterfly conservation. Her book, The Cloud Artist: A Choctaw Tale, published by The RoadRunner Press was a finalist for First Nation Communities Read Award, Oklahoma Book Award, and Writers' League of Texas Book Award. The Book of Untold Stories: Fourteen Prompts To Spark the Imagination and The Magician are her other titles. Educational activities for all of her books are found at SherriMaret.com Thomas Hilley is an illustrator living in Oklahoma. He earned a BFA in Graphic Design with an Illustration emphasis from Oklahoma State University. He has illustrated several children's books as well as instructional and promotional materials. Thomas crafted a style that uses scratchboard and draws inspiration from old woodcut prints. He has recently shifted to working digitally in a style that captures the same spirit of his traditional work while also opening up many new possibilities.