Elizabeth Kolbert is the bestselling author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future. For her work at The New Yorker, where she's a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards, a National Academies Communication Award, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Wesley Allsbrook is an award-winning illustrator and graphic novelist from Durham, North Carolina. They attended the Rhode Island School of Design and have been recognised by The Art Directors Club, The Society of Publication Designers and The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration and Communication Arts.