Shannon Meyerkort

Shannon Meyerkort is a West Australian author who has written several prize-winning short stories, is a Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre 2022 Fellow and was awarded a place on the 2020 Four Centres Emerging Writers Program. As well as writing accessible stories for her youngest daughter who has dyslexia, Shannon is currently working on (at least) two novel manuscripts.

Amy Blackwell is an artist and a creative dabbler based in Nottingham, UK. She began illustrating books in 2018, including Earth Heroes and Aretha Franklin (Little People, Big Dreams #44). Brilliant Minds is Amy's second book with Affirm Press following the popular Rise Up!, published in 2019.