Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, parent, animal lover, and author of thirty novels including the Nightfall, Barakhai, and Bifrost Guardian series, the Robots and Chaos novels of Asimov's I, Robot, one illustrated novella, and fifty-plus short stories. She is most well known for her popular Renshai novels. Mickey lives in Iowa with her husband and three of their children, and divides her time between her family, her writing, teaching at the local university, and the assorted livestock that roam her forty-acre farm.
Jennifer Wingert lives in Iowa and works full-time, but she writes in every spare moment she can find. She co-authored her first novel Spirit Fox with Mickey Zucker Reichert before writing her own novel Grasp the Stars.