Ameera Patel is in the storytelling business. She is an actor, writer, theatre-maker and poet residing in Johannesburg. She read for a BA in Theatre and Performance at the University of Cape Town in 2005 and in 2013 she received a distinction for her Masters in Creative Writing at Wits University in Johannesburg. Ameera has worked as a performer in both theatre and television, and has written for television and the theatre, notably the play Whistle Stop, which won both a Silver Standard Bank Ovation Award and the PANSA Best New Writer award in 2014 in her home country South Africa. Outside the Lines, Patel's first novel, was originally published by Modjaji Books and was long listed for a Barry Ronge Fiction Award (2017).

David Melamed is a humour writer and photographer from Sydney, Australia. Drawing from an extensive career in commercial marketing and being inspired by his family, comes his totally novel debut book, Real Potatoes. His book combines wit with photography to take you on a journey through a laugh out loud and refreshingly different look at potatoes. Currently and for the past 20 years (in July), he has been the marketing manager at a security solutions company and has been inspired to unleash his creative talents in a new light-hearted direction.

Kendra Powers is fourteen years old. She lives in Colorado with her two sisters and two brothers. Bait is her pet toad, which she caught in the nearby river while visiting her grandparents and aunt, who is one of the publishers of this book. An artist, she knits, crochets, makes hats for her toad, and takes photos.