Sylvia Olsen was born and raised in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, on Canada's Pacific coastline. When sje was seventeen, she married an Indian, a member of the Tsartlip First Nations. Olsen has raised her four children within the Tsartlip community. She went to university at the age of 35 and obtained a Master's degree in history, specializing in Native/White relations in Canada.

Dominique Torres is a journalist and report for France 2. She has travelled the globe and for several years, she has taken part in a television emission about human rights. She has written books and made movies about slavery. In 1993 she founded a committee against slavery, and 12 years later the "Réagir dans le monde".

Jesús Carazo (1944 -) was for a long part of his life, professor of languages and arts. He is now retired. His literary work has varied. In the later years he has written a lot of different things. His works have been read in Spain as well as the rest of world and he has won several awards. He writes for teenagers and one of his novels has been named one of the 100 best books for teenagers of the 20th century.

Number the Stars Lois Lowry was born in Hawaii, but because her father was in the army and her husband in the navy, she lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Tokyo, Rhode Island, California, Connecticut, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Maine, where she began her writing career. The main subject of her 30 books is human connections.

Mal di Pietre Milena Agus was born in Genova, but is of Sardinian origin. She teaches Italian and history at a technical school in Cagliari, where she also lives. She wrote her first book, Mentre dorme il pescecane, in 2005. Mal di Pietre is from 2006 and has already been translated into five different languages. It was very successful in France and it has won several awards.

Respidando cerca de mí Jorge Gómez Soto was born in Madrid in 1974. He already began writing while he was studying economics. Writing is in his blood, his dad is a writer as well, and has written several stories for young readers. Jorge Gómez Soto has published 5 novels for young adults, and hopes to publish more. If you want to know more about him, he has a website: www.gomezsoto.com

Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 - 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer. Awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage". Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners for Theatre of the Absurd.

James Heneghan was born 1930 and brought up in Liverpool, England, and in Ireland, where his parents came from. He was a police officer in Liverpool for a couple of years but decided to leave England for Vancouver, British Columbia. After five years, he worked as a fingerprint specialist with the Vancouver Police but was fed up with staring at fingerprints and decided to become a teacher.