Kim Ventrella is a children's librarian, and a lover of weird, whimsical stories of all kinds. She lives in Oklahoma City. Skeleton Tree was her debut novel.
Elizabeth Cottle is a film, stage and voiceover actress, singer and theatre director based in New York City. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Arts and Musical Theatre from Ohio Northern University and is a veteran of more than 30 productions. Recognised for Excellence in Acting by the Ohio Community Theatre Association, she also has a wide variety of performing experience outside of the stage, including narrating audiobooks, filming commercials, shorts and indie features, as well as doing improv sketch comedy and singing with a jazz orchestra.