Katrina Goldsaito
<B>Katrina Goldsaito</B>'s favorite sound is the sound of bare feet on tatami mats. In Tokyo, she worked as an on-camera TV journalist and producer for NHK-World, and has written for National Geographic, <I>The</I><I>Christian Science Monitor</I>, NPR, and <I>The Japan Times</I>. She lives near Golden Gate Park with her husband and son, and spends her days eating avocados and working on her first YA novel.<br><br><B>Julia Kuo<B>'s favorite sound is <I>kuk-kuk-kuk</I> (the sound an angry squirrel makes). She is the illustrator of <I>Go, Little Green Truck</I> and has created illustrations for American Greetings, the Cleveland Public Library, <I>The New York Times</I>, and Capitol Records, among many others. She works from Chicago for most of the year, and from Taipei over the winter.