Marcia A. Silvermetz completed her Masters degree of Sports Medicine/Exercise Physiology in 1981, the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. She completed her Bachelors degree of Psychology/Biology in 1979 at the University of Albany, Albany, New York.

In her years involved in Sports Medicine, her work centered around pain management, cardiac rehabilitation, massage, and fitness programs for injured and rehabilitating clients. She has been professionally published over 35 times in national, international, and local journals, magazines, and newspapers, including: The Clinical Journal of Pain (Mayo Clinic), The International Journal of Athletic Training, The Virginia Journal, Accent on Living, Cooking Light, and on CD ROM with Social Issues Resource Series, Inc., and in children's literature.

She has owned a fitness studio and had a local television fitness show. She worked with the well-known Pain Management Center at The University of Virginia, where she created, directed, promoted, and managed the Physical Education and Aerobic Research Center. She helped create the Central Virginia Fitness Center in Orange, Virginia, and helped develop a Cardiac Rehab unit in one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, Culpeper Regional Hospital, Culpeper, Virginia.

She currently teaches balance and fitness to residents of The Colonnades, a senior community in Charlottesville, Virginia through her company Wavecrest Enterprises. She was the exercise physiologist at the Federal Executive Institute of Charlottesville, Virginia.

She has also applied her pain management medical massage skills to the treatment of horses and riders.

Marcia continues to write for children and older adults and also raises dogs in her home of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Although born in Richmond, Virginia, Ginger Doyel began painting at the age of three while in Scotland. Her career as a professional artist began in 1997 when she illustrated Annapolis the Guidebook by author Katie Moose. Since then, she has illustrated multiple children's books, including Queen Sniffertiti and Nuzzlepup Orchestra by Lane Nelson and How Charlottesville Got Its Theatre Back for Charlottesville's historic Paramount Theater.

Returning from her travels to Annapolis, Maryland, Ginger studied Landscape Architecture at The University of Maryland and explored golf course design. After transferring to the University of Richmond's reputable Jepson School of Leadership Studies, where she graduated first in her class, Ginger was awarded the James MacGregor Burns award for excellence in Leadership Studies.

Ginger's greatest joy in being an artist is the way it enables her to connect and invest in youth. She has facilitated six Youth Lead sessions as part of a grant given by the Verizon Foundation. Through this program, Richmond inner city youth created murals of the city of Richmond.

Ginger presently operates a golf art business called Art Fore Golfers and has worked as an artist with PGA Tour.

She resides in Annapolis, Maryland.