Lilija Berzinska was born in 1978. She is a children's author and illustrator, and also works as a translator. Several of her children's novels were nominated for the Latvian Literature of the Year Award, and her collection of stories *Skelets skapi / The Skeleton in the Cupboard *won the children's category of Latvian Literature of the Year Award in 2018. She and her family live by the sea and near the forest, where different creatures, both wild and imaginary dwell.