Deborah Diesen currently works for a small nonprofit organization and has also worked as a reference librarian and a bookseller. She is the creator of The Pout-Pout Fish series. She lives in Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Dan Hanna has over ten years of experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He is the illustrator of The Pout-Pout Fish series. He lives in Oxnard, California.