Jake Halpern is an acclaimed journalist, author, and radio producer who has written for several publications includingย The New Yorkerย andย The New York Times Magazine.ย As a contributor at NPR, Jake produced one of the most listened-to episodes ofย This American Life. He co-wrote the Dormia series with Peter Kujawinski and is the author ofย Bad Paper, a nonfiction book for adults.ย
For eighteen years, Peter Kujawinski was an American diplomat, on assignment in places like Israel, Haiti, France, and at the UN in New York. Most recently, he was the US Consul General in western Canada, which included Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. While working as a diplomat, he started to write for adults and children. He is a contributor to theย New York Times, and with coauthor Jake Halpern, Peter wrote Nightfall and the Dormia trilogy (Dormia, Worldโs End, and Shadow Tree). He lives in Chicago with his family.