Monique Gray Smithis an award-winning, bestselling author and public speaker. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique's writing and her speaking engagements is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Her books include Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills With Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, When We Are Kindand I Hope. She has also created the young adult adaptation of Braiding Sweetgrassby Robin Wall Kimmerer. Monique is Cree and Scottish. She lives with her family on the Traditional Territories of the L kw o n and W_SÁNEc Peoples Danielle Danielis an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children and adults. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives on Manitoulin Island with her family.