Alex Sanchez has published eight novels, including the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Rainbow Boys and the Lambda Award-winning So Hard to Say. His novel Bait won the Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Book Award and the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Young Adult fiction. He has a master s degree in guidance and counselling and worked for ... Read moremany years as a youth and family counsellor. Julie Maroh is a French writer and illustrator of graphic novels. She wrote and illustrated the New York Times bestselling Blue Is the Warmest Colour about the life and love of two young lesbians, which has been adapted into an award-winning film. After having obtained an applied arts baccalaureat at E.S.A.A.T in Roubaix, Maroh continued her studies in Brussels, where she lived for eight years. She earned two diplomas there, in Visual Arts (comics option) in the Institut Saint-Luc and in Lithography/Engraving at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels. Show Less