Janice Levy is a professor in the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. An acclaimed photographer, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and her photographs and writing have been widely published in textbooks, magazines, and online. She is a Light Work Grant recipient, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and a National Kellogg Leadership Fellow. She is a proponent of international education and cultural exchange, and has taught and conducted workshops in such places as Madagascar, Saudi Arabia, and Antigua.

The fourth girl in a family of 8 children, Colleen Madden made it through childhood pretending to be a space princess with a wookie sidekick and drawing in her cardboard box art studio. Colleen spent some time acting and training at The Second City in Chicago, then went on to graduate from a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, with a contract major in illustration and English literature. She is currently residing in the Philadelphia area, with her writer-husband, and their 2 sons. She has illustrated for many different kinds of clients and is the recipient of an International Greeting Card Louie Award. When not illustrating, Colleen can be found long distance running, making her boys giggle, and eating lots and lots of sushi.