Mitch Krpata is a writer and producer for the Poptropica website and the author of the Island Creator Kit. He lives in Boston.

Kory Merritt is the cocreator of Poptropica comics and the author/illustrator of the weekly comic strip Brockport, the online comic The Lost Side of Suburbia, and The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York. He lives in Spencerport, 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.