Susannah Whaley is studying towards her PhD in Art History and works at a book shop. She has worked for an academic publisher and also assisted in the editing of an academic text. She has a longstanding love of reading and writing, particularly children’s fiction. Tatty Catty is her first children’s book. Hayley Elliott-Kernot is an emerging artist and illustrator living in New Plymouth, Taranaki. She is author of the popular Waffles series. She is the 2018 winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Taranaki Emerging Artists Awards and her first solo exhibition is taking place at the Stratford Percy Thompson Gallery August – September 2020.