Cornelia Funke is the highly acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author of the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord and numerous other children's novels and picture books. Born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten, she worked as a social worker for a few years before turning first to illustration and then to writing. Her books have now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 37 languages.

Jessica Frascht is an illustrator and designer from Luxembourg. Jessica studied communications design in Trier, Germany. In April 2024 she completed her MA in illustration and book design. During her studies, Jessica developed a love for different print techniques such as screen printing and linocut, and the different resulting textures. Through her illustrations she wants to present new and old subject matters in a new light. One of the main throughlines of her work is feminism and the complexities and questions around it. On the one hand, Jessica loves manual techniques such as papercutting and print techniques like screen printing, linocut, woodcut and monoprint. On the other hand, she likes to take the skills learned through these manual techniques and apply and transform them in a digital form. Most of her designs and illustrations are characterized by abstract shapes, bright colours, and rich textures.