Susan Buckley is a New York– based writer, editor, and consultant. With Elspeth Leacock, she has written five YA books on American history including Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, coauthored with Lynda Blackmon Lowery. She has written many children’ s books, was the general editor of the We the People textbook series, and was the editor of AppleSeeds magazine. Eating with Peter is her first adult book.
Dana Catharine is an artist, writer, and teacher living in Brooklyn. She has been drawing all her life, both as a student with Maestro Jesú s Gallardo at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, and with Nikki Ohrbach at the Art Students League in New York City, and as a modern language teacher using drawing as translation.