Li Donghua was born in Gaomi, Shandong Province, 1971. She graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University and was the deputy editor-in-chief of People's Literature and is currently the vice-president of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature. She has published more than twenty novels and has won the "Five-One Project" Award of the Ministry of Propaganda, the National Award for Outstanding Children's Literature, the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award and the Bing Xin Children's Book Award.

Zou Xiaoping was born in Lanzhou in 1958, graduated from the Northwest Normal University in 1982, graduated from the first postgraduate course of printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, and was a visiting scholar at the Printmaking Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lebin, Russia in 2003. She is a member of the China Artists Association and the China Printmakers Association. Her works in ink and wash, printmaking and illustration have taken part in the 7th, 8th and 10th National Art Exhibitions, and have won the Excellence Award, the Bronze Award and the Silver Award in the National Print Exhibition, and the Lu Xun Print Award in the 1980s and 1990s. Her ink and wash works have won bronze and silver medals in the Contemporary Ink and Wash New Artists Exhibition and the Four Seasons of China Exhibition. She has held several solo exhibitions. She has illustrated many literary works and magazines.