Jason Reynolds is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including For Every One, the Run series
(Ghost, Patina, Sunny and Lu), and Look Both Ways. He is a National Book Award finalist; the recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and multiple Coretta Scott King Honors; and the winner of a Kirkus Prize, two Walter Dean Myers Awards, and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. He lives in Washington, D.C and is the current US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

Raúl the Third is the three-time Pura Belpré Award–winning author illustrator of Vamos! Let’s Go Eat and Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market, and the illustrator of Lowriders to the Center of the Earth, written by Cathy Camper. He is currently working on spin-off titles from the World of Vamos!, which include El Toro and Friends, and Coco Rocho books. He lives in Boston.