Trillia Newbell is the author of several books, including A Great Cloud of Witnesses, Sacred Endurance, If God Is For Us, Fear and Faith, and the children’s books Creative God, Colorful Us and God’s Very Good Idea. In addition to her writing, she serves as acquisitions director at Moody Publishers, where she encourages and supports other writers. Trillia and her husband, Thern, live near Nashville, Tennessee, with their two children.

Sandra holds a master’s degree in Theological Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Harvard University. She is the author of The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament and Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters (both from IVP). Sandra serves as the Robert H. Gundry chair of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and is a member of the NIV Committee for Biblical Translation. She and her husband, Steven, have two daughters, Noël and Elise.