Slater, Dashka
Award-winning journalist
Dashka Slater has written for such publications as
The New York Times Magazine,
Newsweek,
Salon, and
Mother Jones. Her
New York Times-bestselling young-adult true crime narrative,
The 57 Bus, has received numerous accolades, including the Stonewall Book Award, the California Book Award, and a
Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and an
LA Times Book Award Finalist, in addition to receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than 20 separate lists of the year's best books, including ones compiled by
The Washington Post, the New York Public Library, and
School Library Journal. In 2021,
The 57 Bus was named to
TIME magazine's list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. The author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, Dashka teaches in Hamline University's MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She lives and writes in Oakland, California.
Hanson, Sydney
Sydney Hanson was raised in Minnesota alongside numerous pets and brothers. In addition to her traditional illustrations, Sydney is an experienced 2D and 3D production artist and has worked for several animation shops, including Nickelodeon and Disney Interactive. In her spare time she enjoys traveling and spending time outside with her adopted brother, a Labrador retriever named Cash. She is the illustrator of the Unicorn Princesses series and the picture book, Next to You. Sydney lives in Los Angeles.
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