Alice Hotopp (Author) is an ecologist. She holds a PhD from the University of Maine in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Atlas of Kinship is her first book.

Coco Faber (Illustrator) is a field biologist and visual artist who has spent over a decade working with birds on Seal Island, a stretch of granite that hosts the largest Atlantic Puffin colony in Maine, along with many other seabird species.