Austin Mackle grew up on a farm in Ireland, surrounded by animals, books and beauty. Fascinated by nature, he discovered very early on the power that stories had. Reading books with big beautiful illustrations and compelling stories with his siblings and parents are some of his favourite memories growing up. He has travelled most of his life, where he discovered creative writing as a vehicle of telling those stories. He now lives in London where he splits his time between his business and writing. Austin has won prizes for both creative writing and short stories. Verti-Goat is the first chapter of a series of books.

Hasan is an illustrator and concept artist based in London. He did his bachelor’s in fine arts (Sculpture and drawing). Having great experience in design industry he now specialises in creating illustrations.  He co-founded a design studio Dezidots in 2015.

Hasan has designed more than five Children’s Book Illustration Projects with Oxford University Press. He did illustrations for animation, video games and character designing. One of his favourite things are his background illustrations. In addition, he worked as a Visual Minute Artist with WWF. He has done more than seventy storyboard projects for Commercials and Films with one of his best being a storyboard of a feature film for Giantflicks Company.