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Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey. After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women's fiction, her children asked her to write a book for them (It Ain't Always Easy), and she discovered she loved writing for young readers. She is the author of more than twenty novels for young readers. Her book The Boxer, won the Golden Kite award. She died in 2017. After graduating in comics from the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, Leonie Bischoff became a bookseller and then an editor. She is the author of a graphic novel about the diarist Anas Nin. Her adaptation of Kathleen Karr's The Great Turkey Walk is her first book for children. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Leonie currently lives in Belgium. Michelle Bailat-Jones is a translator and novelist living in Switzerland. She has translated several short stories as well as two novels by C. F. Ramuz, Beauty on Earth and What if the Sun...? Her other translations include work by Clarisse Francillon, Claude Cahun, Julia Allard Daudet, Laure Mi-Hyun Croset, and Celine Cerny.
