Barbara Diamond Goldin is the recipient of the Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. She has written many award-winning books on Jewish themes, including Night Lights: A Sukkot Story, A Persian Princess, The Passover Cowboy, and Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible. Barbara recently retired from her position as the director of a public library and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. 

Rita grew up in Indonesia, where she taught herself art. She loves drawing digitally, as it gives her more freedom. If she’s not drawing, then she’s writing stories, gardening, cooking, reading or spending time with her two children, the source of her inspiration. She lives in Washington State.