Chantel Acevedo was born in Miami to Cuban parents. She is the author of
A Falling Star;
Love and Ghost Letters, winner of the Latino International Book Award; and
The Distant Marvels, among other books. She is an associate professor of English in the MFA program at the University of Miami.
Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.
