Jane Yolen has received many awards for her writing, including the Regina Medal, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Christopher Medal, the John Burroughs Young Readers Award, and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work. She lives in St. Andrews, Scotland, and Hatfield, Massachusetts. Jason Stemple is a freelance photographer who provided the photographs for An Egret's Day and A Mirror to Nature by Jane Yolen. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.