Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia is a former teacher and audiologist who loves to stand in old barns and listen to all the sounds. This is her debut picture book, inspired by a real barn in her neighborhood that felt like an old friend before it was torn down. She lives with her husband, two teenagers and two dogs in central Iowa.
Katie Hickey is a freelance illustrator who blends hand rendered print processes and digital methods and finds inspiration in her travels and surroundings. She loves drawing environments and enjoyed making Bess the barn an unusually human one. Katie lives in Surrey, England.
