Gladys Milroy is of Aboriginal descent and the mother of acclaimed author and artist Sally Morgan. Tracey Gibbs is a graphic designer and an illustrator whose work has appeared in Spider Lies. Sally Morgan is the director for the Centre for Indigenous History at the University of Western Australia, as well as an artist whose works are in numerous private and public collections in the United States and Australia. She is the author of Dan's Grandpa, My Place for Younger Readers: Arthur Corunna's Story, My Place for Younger Readers: Mother and Daughter, Speaking from the Heart, and the award-winning Heartsick for Country. Gladys is also the author The Great Cold. Gladys Milroy is of Aboriginal descent and the author of The Great Cold.