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Donna Griffin lives in Greenfield, Indiana. She has been a writer, editor, and teacher for more than 30 years. A native Hoosier, she served as editor and general manager of the Times-Post weekly newspaper in Pendleton, Indiana, and also worked at newspapers in Central Indiana for 16 years, owning and operating her own weekly newspaper. Griffin is the author of The Twelve Days of Christmas in Indiana casebound and board book.

As a child, Gary Varvel saw a copy of MAD magazine - and he's been drawing cartoons ever since. A native Hoosier and current resident of Brownsburg, Indiana, Varvel won his first cartoon contest during his freshman year at Danville High School. Within a few short years, he was tapped to be chief artist at The Indianapolis News managing a three-person art department. In 1994, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Charles Werner retired from The Indianapolis Star, and Varvel succeeded him, fulfilling a career dream. Varvel, whose cartoons are nationally distributed by Creators Syndicate, has won many national cartooning awards including the 2012 National Headliners Award; 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award; 2010 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award and 2010 Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning with a Conscience. In 2015,Varvel was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. Varvel is a board member of House of Grace Films and co-writer and producer of the films The Board (2009) and The War Within (2014). He is the author/illustrator of a children's book, The Good Shepherd, published in 2014 by House of Grace Films.