Elizabeth has a bachelor’s from Emporia State University. For more than 15 years, she has worked at a local community college, enrolling countless students and overseeing transfer credits. She is an experienced jewelry designer, chef, and plantsman, as well as a life-long student of natural medicine.

Mariella is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, author, and book designer. She has designed over 150 titles for FriesenPress and now serves as the senior designer for 12 Willows Press. She also collaborates with The Telling Room and works with private clients on a range of book design and illustration projects. Her portfolio spans fiction, poetry, memoir, spiritual, young adult, and—her favorite—children’s picture books. In 2019, she self-published The Bear & The Butterfly: Little Ponderings and has since illustrated several children’s books, including Chickens Are Animals Too by Tracey Winter Glover and Razzle Dazzle Goes to Town by Joseph Gray. She is currently developing an online shop featuring her illustrations on sustainable products. You can visit her at www.alleiram.com.