Lynnette Mawhinney, PhD, is Chair of, and an Associate Professor in, the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark, at which she is also affiliated faculty in the African American and African Studies Department. She helps to prepare future urban teachers for the classroom and her academic research focuses on autoethnographic explorations around biracial identity and development. Dr. Mawhinney has published four books and 27 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including ones on biracial identity. Her first children's book, Lulu, The One and Only, received a starred review from Kirkus. She lives outside of Philadelphia, PA. Visit https://www.lynnettemawhinney.

com/ Jennie Poh was born in England and grew up in Malaysia (in the jungle). Pen and paper by her side at all times she loved drawing princesses and writing stories. At the age of ten she moved back to England and trained as a ballet dancer. After failing her art A-level Jennie decided the art world was definitely for her so she studied Fine Art at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design as well as Fashion Illustration at Central St.Martins. Illustrating is the reason she gets washed and dressed in the morning. She loves drawing quirky beautiful girly stuff and works with ink, watercolor, collage, origami paper, pencils, and usually ends up wanting to bash her computer. Jennie lives in Surrey, England.