Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and a recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant. He is a New York Times bestselling graphic novelist whose award-winning work includes American Born Chinese, a Printz and Eisner Award-winner and National Book Award finalist; Boxers & Saints; The Shadow Hero; and Eisner Award-winning The Eternal Smile.
Derek Kirk Kim is the author of Same Difference and Tune, and the winner of the trifecta of comics awards - the Eisner, the Ignatz, and the Harvey.