Beat the Rain

Stephanie Ebert lives in South Africa with her three children. She spent her South African childhood writing stories and climbing avocado trees, before going to university in the USA to study English Literature. When she is not writing her own stories, she enjoys working with her local community to see more South African stories come to life. She is the editor of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, annotated for teen and middle grade readers (Owl’s Nest, 2024) and co-author of How to Stop a Train: The Story of How Mohandas Gandhi became the Mahatma with Kathryn Pillay (Pan Macmillan, 2024).

Alison de Villiers lives in Hilton, South Africa with her husband and two children. While she didn’t study art or illustration, she grew up in a home where art was a big part of her childhood. After studying a Bachelor in Science, she ended up making her way back to her passion for creating. As a stay-at-home mom and freelancer, Alison finds herself involved in a variety of creative projects from painting murals, to watercolor commissions, woodwork, sewing, interior decorating and gardening.