Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, a poet and educator, is currently a master's candidate in the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rebecca S. Bigler, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are social cognition in children, gender role development and racial stereotyping.
Aimee Young teaches in rural Ohio. She has studied in Poland and Israel, was awarded a teaching fellowship through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and earned the prestigious DisneyHAND American Teacher Award, given to just 38 teachers in the nation in 2004.
Mitali Perkins was born in India and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 6 years old. She is the author of two novels, as well as many short stories and essays about life between cultures.
Kristan Taylor has been teaching for eight years. She currently serves as migrant education coordinator in Aubrey, Texas. She holds a Master of Arts in teaching English as a second language from the University of North Texas, Denton.
Bonnie DeSimone is a freelance writer who lives outside Philadelphia. She first became interested in Norse mythology in 4th grade when she read Marvel comic books featuring Thor, and in 8th grade drew and wrote her own strip about her classmates.
