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Formerly a lecturer in a Delhi University college, Deepa Agarwal has authored more than twenty-five books both in English and Hindi. Her awards include the NCERT National Award for Children’s Literature and a first prize in The Asian Age short story competition among several others. Apart from writing fiction she writes poetry and translations from Hindi into English. She has received fellowships from the International Institute of Children’s Literature in Vienna, Austria and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, New Delhi to pursue another of her interests, researching children’s literature. Deepa lives in Delhi with her businessman husband and has three daughters.

Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) is a Delhi-based writer and artist. Her comic strips appeared weekly in the Sunday Observer (Bombay, 1982-86) and daily in the Pioneer (New Delhi, 1991-97). Her books include Hot Death, Cold Soup (Kali for Women, 1996), Getting There (Picador UK, 1999), This is Suki! (Duckfoot Press, 2000) and Kleptomania (Penguin Books India, 2004). Harvest (Kali for Women, 1998 and subsequently in three separate international anthologies), her fifth play, won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre. Manjula has illustrated twenty-four books for children including her own novels, Mouse Attack and Mouse Invaders (Macmillan Children’s Books, UK, 2003, 2004).

Paro Anand is a Sahitya Akademi, Bal Sahitya Award winner for her book, Wild Child. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. As a performance storyteller and speaker, she has represented India all over the world. In 2019, she was awarded the Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award for Fearless Women Writers.