Award-winning author Eric A. Kimmel is a native of New York who taught teachers as a professor of Education at Indiana University at South Bend and Portland State University. His favorite classes were children's literature, language arts, storytelling, and handwriting. He left the university in 1993 to become a full-time writer, a dream he had had since kindergarten. Eric has written more than fifty books and has won numerous awards. He and his wife, Doris, live in Portland, Oregon. Illustrator Erin Camarca's medium is colored pencil and the vast beauty of the Southwest provides her inspiration. A native of Durango, Colorado, she has displayed her artwork in shows locally and throughout the region. She lives there with her husband and son and a bevy of farmyard friends. Rattlestiltskin is her first book.