Carole Wilkinson is an internationally award-winning and bestselling Australian author of more than 30 books, a number of short stories, a telemovie and some TV and planetarium scripts. Dragonkeeper was published in 2003 and won the 2003 Aurealis Award, the 2004 CBCA Young Readers Book of the Year, the 2004 QUeenland Premier's Literary Award for Best Children's Book and the 2006 Kalbacher Klapperschlange (German Children's Choice Award). Since then she has written more books in the Dragonkeeper series which has sold all over the world. The Dragonkeeper series was made into an animated film in 2024 for which Wilkinson wrote the script. A non-fiction book, 10 Pound Pom, won the 2018 Primary Educational Picture Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the 2018 CBCA Picture Book of the Year. Wilkinson lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Tamblyn Lord is an Australian actor and voice artist. He has featured extensively in Australian theatre and television for over 35 years, appearing in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, The Secret River, Satisfaction and Cliffy. He has previously narrated Lian Hern's Tales of the Otori trilogy and The Inheritance by Gabriel Bergmoser. He is also recognisable as the voice of the meditation and mindfulness app Smiling Mind.