Jacqueline Jules is a poet, author, and teacher. Her books for young readers include Zapato Power, Unite or Die : How Thirteen States Became a Nation, and Miriam in the Desert. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Imitation Fruit, The Broome Review, Sow 's Ear Poetry Review, Christian Science Monitor, Chaminade Literary Review, Sunstone, Potomac Review, and Minimus. She won the Arlington Arts Moving Words Contest in 2007, Best Original Poetry from the Catholic Press Association in 2008, and the SCBWI Magazine Merit Poetry Award in 2009. Visit her at www.jacquelinejules.com.
Rick Lucey is a San Francisco based illustrator and cartoonist. He has been both a staff artist and a contractor at various companies such as Namco and TechTV. Through the years he has self published various comic stories some of which were collaborations. More recently he has been doing work in the areas of storyboarding, character design and illustration. He has self-published a comic book called DOCBOT. Some of his art can be found at www.drawrick.com and www.mojizu.com under the screen name docalien. You can buy his comics/sketchbooks at the Cartoon Art Museum store in San Francisco.