Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a writer and artist. Her collection of stories, The Gray Fox Epistles, won the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation in 2014. Her other books include The Wonderments of the East Bay and The Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area. From 2013 to 2016, she ran a stories-in-the-mail business called Wild Talewort, in which she sent myths and folktales rooted in the landscapes of California to the post-boxes of hundreds of subscribers around the world. @WildTalewort Rima Staines is an artist living in South Devon. She has exhibited paintings internationally, and her artwork has appeared on books, magazines and record covers on both sides of the Atlantic. @tilsamka