Mitch Krpata is a writer and producer for the Poptropica website, and the author of the Poptropica Island Creator Kit. He has published reviews and essays in Slate, the Boston Phoenix, Paste, and the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. Krpata lives in Massachusetts with his wife, two children, and a lazy dog.

Kory Merritt started cartooning and illustrating while attending SUNY Brockport. He is the winner of the 2007 John Locher Memorial Award for Cartooning for his weekly comic strip Brockport Chronicled; the creator of the online comic Lost Side of Suburbia; and cocreator of Poptropica comics. His first book is The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York. Merritt teaches art for K–6 in Hammondsport, New York.

Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and five-time Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award winner for Favorite Book. Kinney has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also the creator of Poptropica, which was named one of Time magazine’s 50 Best Websites. He spent his childhood in the Washington, DC, area and moved to New England in 1995. Kinney lives with his wife and two sons in southern Massachusetts, where they own a bookstore, An Unlikely Story.