Jada Fitch is an illustrator whose work can be found everywhere from bookshops to nature trails. She has created illustrations for Maine Audubon, American Bird Conservancy, Down East Magazine, Liberty Graphics, The Nature Conservancy, as well as other park foundations, publishers, and magazines. Fitch is the creator of the popular Home Tweet Home window feeder, a decorated tiny home for birds. When not at her desk, Fitch is bird watching or taking photos in the forest. She lives in Addison, Maine.
Kateri Kosek’s poetry and essays have appeared in such places as Orion, Terrain.org, Catamaran, Northern Woodlands Magazine, and Creative Nonfiction and Briar Cliff Review. Kosek lectures in English at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, and has taught at Marist College, Dutchess Community College, and Western CT State University, where she mentors in the MFA program in Creative and Professional Writing. She lives in western Massachusetts, where she writes for Berkshire Magazine and The Berkshire Edge and works surveying bird populations in Aton Forest in northwest Connecticut.