Joseph Bruchac is an Abenaki poet and writer who often draws on his heritage in developing his stories and poems. Many of his writings and retellings are for children and teens.

Bruchac was born in 1942 and grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in New York. As a young adult, he began to seek out Native American stories, which he has retold in collections such as Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear: Stories from Native North America, and Lasting Echoes, An Oral History of Native American People. Bruchac also enjoys storytelling and has traveled around the country to share Native American stories with many audiences.

Gayle Ross is a descendant of a Cherokee chieftain. During the past fifteen years, she has become a well-loved and respected storyteller, as her grandmother was before her. Ross has retold Native American tales in her story collections How Rabbit Tricked Otter and How Turtle's Back Was Cracked. She and Joseph Bruchac worked together to write The Girl Who Married the Moon, the collection from which "Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother" is taken. Ross lives with her husband and their two children in Fredricksburg, Texas.