Malka Drucker┬аis the author of 21 books, including the award-winning works┬аFrida Kahlo, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust,┬аGrandma's Latkes,┬аand┬аWhite Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America.┬аWhite Fire┬аwon the 2005 PEN Southwest Book Award for Nonfiction. DruckerтАЩs highly acclaimed Jewish Holiday series won the Southern California Council on Literature for Children Prize series. Another of her biographies,┬аEliezer Ben Yehuda: Father of Modern┬аHebrew, won the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Janusz Korczak Literary Competition and┬аFrida Kahlo┬аwas chosen as an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. She belongs to many literary organizations, including The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Southern California Council on Literature for Young People, the Association of Jewish Librarians, The Authors Guild, and PEN.┬аOrdained in 1998 from the Academy for Jewish Religion, a trans-denominational seminary, Malka Drucker is also the founding rabbi of HaMakom: The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Michael Halperin┬аis an author and writer of many television episodes, plays, and books. He received a BA in communications from the USC Annenberg School of Communications and his PhD in film studies. Halperin was a story editor for Universal Television and an executive story consultant at 20th Century Fox. He is the coauthor of the bestselling and award-winning childrenтАЩs novel┬аJacobтАЩs Rescue: A Holocaust Story. He is also┬аknown for his book┬аBlack Wheels, which was┬аchosen by the National Education Association as one of the best books of 2005тАУ2013.