Caroline Watkins is the Assistant Publisher at Persnickety Press and the author of Giracula, the first title in the Bump in the Night series. A graduate of UNC and Boston College, she turned her social work education into a career in children's literature. Caroline lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Mark Tuchman is the creative director of School Library Journal. At home, he is dad to three very creative children who direct him on his illustration projects. Most recently, he illustrated Lauren Wohl's Raccoon River Kids Adventures series (also Persnickety Press). Mark's publishing debut, many years ago, was a comic book about the beginnings--and unique educational philosophy--of his alma mater, Hampshire College. Mark and his family live in Brooklyn, New York.