The Light Keeper

Karen Levine was a producer with CBC Radio for forty-one years and won two Peabody Awards. She is the author of the multiple award-winning Hana’s Suitcase, published in over forty countries. She lives in Toronto.

Sheila Baslaw began writing after a career in social work. Intrigued by her parents' stories of childhood in a shtetl, she based Shmuel on her father's life as a Jewish child in Russia in the early 1900s. Sheila, in her nineties, lives in Ottawa.

Alice Priestley is a Toronto based illustrator and web designer. She has illustrated more than a dozen picture books, including Lights for Gita and Mom Marries Mum!, as well as textbooks, anthologies, and some of her website projects.