Ariana Treasure

Jacqueline deRose-Ahern is an international award-winning author. Jacqueline was therecipient of the ACT Writers Centre 2017 Anne Edgeworth Fellowship. Her bookshave been recognised for a number of awards within Australia andinternationally, including winning the travel category of the 2020 AmericanBook Excellence Awards and being shortlisted for the Speech Pathology AustraliaBook of the Year Awards in 2017 and 2019. Jacqueline regularly contributes to avariety of online platforms and has appeared at several literary events,including the Canberra Writers Festival, the Goulburn Reader Writer Festival,and the NSW Kids & YA Festival. She holds a Masters in InternationalDevelopment and works in international affairs. Karen Erasmuslives by the sea just south of Melbourne with her children and husband. Thecoastal environment and the vibrant countryside around her home provideinspiration for her illustrations. Karen’s livelyhome life often finds its way into her artwork; she loves to create artworkthat brings stories to life. She has enjoyed illustrating over 20 picturebooks. Karen draws on an iPad carefully choosing colour palettes and textures.When she isn’tdrawing Karen enjoys travelling, she has lived in many different parts of theworld and was originally from the UK. She settled in Melbourne to raise herchildren and loves her adopted home country.