Margaret Chiu Greanias has been hooked on books for as long as she can remember. She lives in a busy household in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children and sometimes gets grumpy when she can’t find the time or space to read. She is the author of Amah Faraway and Maximillian Villainous.

Carina Ho is a dancer and musician who performs under the moniker ONIKHO. Having trained in dance and music since childhood, Carina joined AXIS Dance Company, a physically integrated dance company that casts dancers with and without disabilities, shortly after sustaining a spinal cord injury. Over the next two years she toured the United States with them until she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, for which she relocated to Montevideo, Uruguay to teach at the national dance conservatory El SODRE. During this time, Carina also began developing her music project, which melds her influences of classical, blues, and electronic music. Today she primarily tours as a musical artist, often collaborating with other disabled artists to promote the visibility of diverse bodies in the arts. A second Mara book will be published in Spring 2025.

From poetry to songwriting, Serena is a lover of all things words! Indulging in the writing of others is one of her favorite pastimes and she loves learning from all that she reads.