Bright Lights and Summer Nights

SHAUNTAY GRANT is an award-winning author, poet, playwright, interdisciplinary artist, and associate professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University. She is the author of a number of picture books, including My Fade is Fresh, which garnered multiple starred reviews, Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure, Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure and When I Wrap My Hair. A former poet laureate for the City of Halifax, her picture book Africville won the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards, the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards, and the 2019 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. View titles by Shauntay Grant

ZACH MANBECK is an acclaimed children's book author and illustrator based in Pennsylvania. As an artist, his work is described as modern vintage — nostalgic, yet fresh. As a writer, Zach aims to tell stories from a new perspective — stories that advocate for characters that haven't yet had a chance to live in books, and stories sprinkled with lessons that encourage the forming of healthy minds. Zach made his picture book debut with You Are Here and he is the illustrator of Stanley's Secret and Manolo and the Unicorn. View titles by Zach Manbeck