Lizzie Brooks is an author, author advisor, yoga teacher, and mom based in Asheville, North Carolina. Her debut picture book, Imperfectly Perfect Posey: A Wobbly Yoga Story, received a Kirkus Star and was named a Kirkus Indie Pick of the Month. She also works with picture-book writers on craft and industry. For Spinning Wheel Stories, she is the author of Imperfectly Perfect Posey.

Adilson Farias is a Brazilian illustrator and children’s book author based in Curitiba. He has worked in children’s publishing for more than two decades, with books published in Brazil and internationally. His illustrations often combine watercolor and digital painting, with a focus on expressive characters and visual storytelling. He is currently collaborating with Spinning Wheel Stories as an illustrator.

Phoebe Maris is an illustrator, designer, and author based in Iowa. Drawn to storytelling and the natural world from an early age, she works across illustration and design, including picture-book and editorial projects. Her portfolio explores character, nature, and tactile paper-based imagery. She is part of the growing community of creators working with Spinning Wheel Stories.

Before Franziska fulfilled her dream of becoming an illustrator, she worked on circus projects, traveled the world, became the mother of two girls, and lived abroad. After completing her master’s degree in illustration at Falmouth University in 2023, she continued to develop work rooted in her ongoing search for connection to nature, a theme that has been central to her art for several years. Small Wild Treasure is her first picture book. The story began with a few illustrations that were later long listed and shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2024 in Children's Publishing/ New Talent. 

Known for her warm, whimsical art created with watercolor, ink, and colored pencil on custom-textured paper, author/illustrator Andrea Yomtob brings a fine-art sensibility to her picture books. After graduating cum laude from ArtCenter College of Design with a BFA in Illustration, she spent two decades working in animation, primarily at Nickelodeon Animation Studios, contributing to Emmy-nominated shows including Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants. Today, she creates picture books that celebrate curiosity, nature, kindness, and joyful learning. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children and is an active member of SCBWI and 12x12.

Ted Forsström is a Finnish-Swedish media personality, author, and comedian based in Ostrobothnia. He has worked as an actor, director, and screenwriter and is widely known as one half of the duo Ted & Kaj. With Kaj Korkea-aho, he co-wrote the Finlandia Junior-nominated YA trilogy ZOO! and co-hosts Finland’s most popular Swedish-language podcast. He also creates children’s content for Svenska Yle. For Spinning Wheel Stories, he wrote Button Up, Buttercup! and No Fish in My Dish!

Åsa Lucander is a Finnish director, designer, illustrator, and animator based in Bristol, England. She studied illustration in London before joining Aardman Animations in 2015. Her work explores many creative styles, from hand-drawn animation and stop motion to CGI, with a particular love of texture, character, and storytelling. She has directed award-winning short films and projects for clients including the BBC and Coldplay. Her first picture book, created with Ted Forsström, was the Finlandia-nominated Stella. For Spinning Wheel Stories, she illustrated Button Up, Buttercup! and No Fish in My Dish!

Mila Teräs writes for children, young adults, and adults, often weaving fantasy and historical elements into realistic stories. Her work has received the Kaarina Helakisa Prize for children’s and young adult literature and has been nominated for the Finlandia and Topelius Prizes. Her picture books include The Vole and the Moon and The Fox Who Painted the Sky. For Spinning Wheel Stories, she is the author of The Vole Who Looked at the Moon.

Nora Surojegin is an illustrator, children’s author, and graphic designer living in Kirkkonummi, Finland, between the sea and the forest. Inspired by forest trolls and her secret garden, she creates worlds through both pictures and words. In her work, she enjoys mixing the strange with the incredible and making art that invites readers to stop and look closely. Her books have been translated into ten languages. For Spinning Wheel Stories, she illustrated The Vole Who Looked at the Moon.

Lola Rogers is a literary translator based in Seattle. She has translated novels, stories, poetry, comics, and children’s books, including Riikka Jäntti’s Little Mouse books and Teemu Leppälä’s Icebreaker Snow series. Her translations have received two English PEN Awards, an Indies Book of the Year Silver Award, and an NEA Translation Fellowship. For Spinning Wheel Stories, she translated The Vole Who Looked at the Moon.

Annie Prime, or A. A. Prime, is an award-winning translator of Swedish literature based in Hastings, UK. Her translations have won the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize, been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and been nominated for the Carnegie Medal, among other accolades. She has published more than 40 titles in the last decade, many of them weird and witty stories for children, full of rhyme and nonsense. She takes silliness very seriously. For Spinning Wheel Stories, she translated Button Up, Buttercup! and No Fish in My Dish!