Holly Davis is a kidlit author who started her writing journey as a child, often drawing the book cover and only writing a couple of chapters. In high school, she wrote fanfiction for the video game, Kingdom Hearts, before eventually wanting to write stories of worlds and characters all her own!

Now Holly gives writing advice and interacts with the online community via her YouTube channel. She’s also a Page Turner Young Writer Awards judge and the host of the Diversity is Lit Book Club, which promotes BIPOC authors.

You can find her in the Chicago suburbs helping people in the hospital as a physical therapist, enjoying the company of her two babies who have fur, and binging Netflix shows.

Kelli (Veronica’s true name) has a deep imagination and a sail filled with ambition for the sea of opportunity ahead. As a teen, she loved consuming all media about far-off magical worlds. As an adult, she enjoys using her own spellbinding creativity to spin whimsical worlds and charming characters from thin air.

She is a proud Appalachian because you can take the woman out of the mountains, but you can’t take the mountains out of the woman. She now calls a quiet New England town home. When she isn’t crafting a story, she enjoys kitchen witchery, making art with her daughters, and making the everyday into an adventure with her spouse.