C.K. Malone (they/them) is a bigender award-winning educator and literature coach at the secondary level. When not grading essays or helping students, they're busy helping design culturally and LGBTQIA+ responsive units for the district and working as a climate and culture coach. When they're not writing, they're coaching and advising through alignment with the Genders and Sexualities Alliance Network. C.K. continues this work in the literary world by advocating for all to be given the space to tell their own stories. Though they love the many hats they wear, their favorite is as an advocate for diverse voices. Alejandra Barajas was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in July 1984. At a very young age, her grandmother gave her a book by painter and illustrator Carl Larsson. This awakened her interest in art. She completed her degree in Fine Arts at Guanajuato University. Since then she has been working on individual and collective projects and illustrating magazines and children's books. She is a very calm person, who appreciates silence and loves contemplating the local landscape while playing with her dog.
