MEL TORREFRANCA is a YouTuber, novelist, and founder of Lost Island Press. When she isn’t writing young adult fiction, Mel enjoys video editing, photography, playing the guitar, and traveling. She is a lifelong San Francisco Bay native where she works during the day and nurses her latte obsession by night.

SHIRA BEHORE is a 19-year-old student and aspiring author from Central Florida. She loves all forms of art and expression and believes that one cannot own too many books. Aside from stitching up characters and whisking them away on adventures her free time is split between studying and devouring new books of every genre.