Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her novel, Piecing Me Together , received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include the Ryan Hart series, Love is a Revolution , Some Places More Than Others , This Side of Home , What Momma Left Me , Betty Before X , co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Watch Us Rise , co-written with Ellen Hagan, as well as acclaimed picture books: Maya's Song , The 1619 Project: Born on the Water , co-written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, and Harlem's Little Blackbird , which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée grew up in Portland, Oregon, and splits her time between Portland and New York City. www.reneewatson.net @harlemportland (Instagram) @reneewauthor (Twitter) Bea Jackson creates to encapsulate a moment in time, challenging herself to combine her boundless imagination with experiences and emotion and capture the result on paper. A lifelong collector of both picture books and comics, she admires art's ability to speak perfectly on its own and translate ideas without words.

As a digital painter using textures that mimic pastels, oil paints, and watercolor, she pursues the rainbow in her palette, seeking to add a touch of childhood magic to her work. From one of her earliest illustrated picture books, Hair Like Mine , to the New York Times bestselling Parker Looks Up , Bea explores themes that unify rather than divide. www.beagifted.com @BeaGifted (Instagram).