Eric Pinder worked at the Mount Washington Observatory for seven years, performing weather observations for the National Weather Service. For two of those years, he also served as editor of Windswept, the Mount Washington Observatory's membership magazine. Combining his lifelong interests in science, writing, and education, he designed and taught a meteorology course for Barnes & Noble's online university from 2000-2002 and has written several books about mountains and weather. Eric graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He teaches at Chester College of New England, and currently is pursuing an MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, focusing on writing for children and young adults. T.B.R. Walsh has illustrated four other books in addition to Cat in the Clouds. Treehouse Chronicles, which he illustrated in 2004, won nine book awards, including an American Design Award and two awards for illustration. He is a regular contributing illustrator for the magazine Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors. When not at his easel or on his boat, he lives in a cottage in the New Hampshire woods.