Tereza Horváthová is a publisher, editor, translator, writer, and organizer. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, with a degree in French language and literature. In 2000, she and her husband Juraj Horváth founded Baobab, a publishing house for children's books. In 2011, she conceived and organized the first edition of the Tabook festival, an international event for small quality publishers. Beyond her publishing work, she writes children’s books, prose, and poetry, occasionally translates, and writes screenplays. She initiates nonprofit cultural events and engages in mild political-cultural activism. For her book Modrý tygr (The Blue Tiger), she received the Golden Ribbon award for 2005. The book was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Petr Oukropec. She lives in Tábor, where she and her husband are raising eight children.

Alžběta Skálová, studied animated film at the Prague School of Applied Arts under Jiří Barta and later illustration and graphics with Juraj Horváth. She further enriched her artistic experience with internships in Paris and Baltimore. Skálová's artistic repertoire spans painting, with a focus on watercolor, graphic arts, and object art. Renowned as an illustrator and author, she self-published her works with small publishers like Kopr and NaPOLI. At NaPOLI, alongside M. Kupsová and A. Zemanová, she delved into her own creative projects – particularly books, posters, and paper games – making a mark in exhibitions for small publishers and contemporary design both in the Czech Republic and internationally, including Japan. She played a pivotal artistic role in K. Karhánková's acclaimed animated film "Fruits of Clouds" (2017), which garnered multiple awards, including Best European Short Film for Children at the Berlinale.

Skálová has a longstanding collaboration with Baobab Publishing and has published with Labyrint, Albatros, Brod, and the French publisher MeMo. Her illustrations and books have earned her prestigious recognitions like the Most Beautiful Czech Book and Magnesia Litera awards.

Her work is exhibited widely, both domestically and abroad, with her most comprehensive exhibition, "Walking in Twilight," held at the Villa Pellé Gallery in 2019. Skálová lives and works in Prague and the countryside.

Olga Černá studied agronomy and has worked in a laboratory, a bookstore, a village library, and is currently employed at the Milevsko monastery. She is a principal author for the Baobab publishing house, where she has published six children's books. She also writes short texts of various genres for magazines and newspapers and regularly contributes to the Respekt weekly blog. She lives in South Bohemia. Černá has been honored with the Librarian of the Year title, and her books are regularly recognized with the IBBY Golden Ribbon award.

Jaroslav Tvrdoň graduated in the field of Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Since 2010, he has co-directed the RUBATO publishing house with Petr Januš, and since 2020, he has focused his efforts largely on samizdat prints which he publishes under his own brand OFFICINA PRAGA. He publishes essays on book and graphic design, literature, and visual arts, particularly in the magazines A2, a cultural fortnightly, and HOST. He also engages in editorial and publishing work and teaches the history of graphic design and typography. He has been twice awarded in the competition for the Most Beautiful Books of the Czech Republic for his own book designs. Many years ago, he published a collection of short stories Tam, nahoře (Way Up There) (2005). Recently, for his own pleasure, he published the small Manuál rybářského učně (Fishing Apprentice’s Handbook) (2022). He is currently preparing more books for publication.

Juraj Horváth graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he studied in the Illustration and Graphics Studio under Professor Jiří Šalamoun. He also completed internships in the Photography Studio (doc. Pavel Štecha) and in Lettering and Typography (prof. Jan Solpera). Horváth dedicates himself to drawing, graphic arts, graphic design, illustration, and publishing books for children and young adults through the Baobab publishing house, which he runs with his wife, Tereza Horváthová. He is behind the street project POPROSVET. As a graphic artist and illustrator, he works for publishers such as Argo, GplusG, Labyrinth, Torst, and Triad. He has published in magazines like Souvislosti, Dotyk, Revolver Revue, and Park. Since 2000, he has been in charge of creating the visual style for the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava. For the book Příběhy z Parní lázně (Tales From the Sweat Lodge), he received the award for The Most Beautiful Book of the World at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2001. Since 2003, he has been leading the Studio of Illustration and Graphics at UMPRUM in Prague. From 2010 to 2015, he created the exhibition program for the Baobab Gallery, focusing on graphics, authorial books, illustration, along with other currents in contemporary art that are more visual than conceptual. Since 2012 he has worked with Jan Čumlivský to prepare the art portion of the international book festival Tabook.

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Jan Machonin is a specialist in Russian studies, a journalist, and a translator, and graduated from the Institute of East European Studies at Charles University. He co-founded, edited, and wrote for the Czech cultural and social magazines Babylon and A2 and regularly contributes to the Jewish Yearbook, where he publishes translations of Russian Jewish poets and prose writers. From 2006 to 2015, he lived in Moscow, where he worked as a journalist, gallery owner, and cultural organizer at the Czech Center, and now he lives and works in Dubna near Moscow. Together with Alena Machoninová, he compiled and translated the poetry anthology of the Lianozovo School poets Zloději všedních okamžiků (Thieves of Ordinary Moments, Arbor vitae, 2016), edited and translated the book of poems by Alexander Makarov-Krotkov Co můžu říct (What Can I Say, Petrkov 2015), the books of Viktor Pivovarov Svědectví současníků (Testimonies of Contemporaries, Sefer / Ztichlá klika, 2014) and Zamilovaný agent (The Love-struck Agent, Torst / Viktor Pivovarov Foundation, 2018), and contributed to the translation of the book of poems by Igor Kholin Nikdo z vás nezná Cholina (None of You Know Kholin, Aleš Prstek Publishing, 2012). He translated from French the novels Velký sešit (The Notebook) and Důkaz (The Proof) by Swiss writer Agota Kristof (Mladá fronta, 1995, 2001). For Baobab Publishing, he translated Mark Charitonov's Učitel lhaní (The Teacher of Lies, 2004) and three volumes of Riad Sattouf's comic book pentalogy Jednou budeš Arab (The Arab of the Future, 2015– ). Over the last ten years, he has worked on the translation of six books of the Kolyma Stories cycle by Varlam Shalamov, which were published progressively by GplusG/Baobab from 2012 to 2019.

Marek Toman (born in 1967) is a writer and journalist known for his historical novels children's books. In Chvála oportunismu (In Praise of Opportunism, 2016), he explores Czech history from the perspective of the Černín Palace in Prague, focusing on figures such as J. Masaryk and R. Heydrich. Neptunova jeskyně (Neptune's Cave, 2018) captures the layered history of Prague's Czech-Jewish-German Vinohrady district and Grébovka villa through the eyes of the Neptune statue. Oko žraloka (The Eye of the Shark, 2018) delves into the stories of Czech International Brigaders, leftists, and tramps from the viewpoint of J. Klecan, the anti-hero from Fučík's Reportáž psaná na oprátce (Report From the End of the Noose). This novel led to the publication of newly discovered letters by Klecan in Zrádce, hrdina, spisovatel? (Traitor, Hero, or Writer?, 2021). In Panna (The Virgin, 2022), Toman tells a story from Příbram about a man who spent decades in hiding set against the backdrop of the communist effort to build a new society in Příbram.
His children's book Cukrárna U Šilhavého Jima (Cross-Eyed Jim’s Confectionary, 2018) is about a brave librarian promoting the beauty of literature among backwoodsmen. Neskutečná dobrodružství Florentina Flowerse (The Incredible Adventures of Florentin Flowers, 2019) depicts a boy from a good family who must rewrite the ship's log for the cruelest pirate captain around. The trilogy promoting reading and literacy concludes with "Nožička and Wohryzek" (2022), where a young Czech-American seeks his kidnapped father with the help of K. Čapek, F. Kafka, and J. Hašek.
Toman also wrote the script for the comic "Odsunuté děti" (Displaced Children, 2021) depicting the stories of Sudeten Germans' displaced children. He regularly appears in libraries, schools, and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad, including performances with his Theatre Čučka. His books for adults and children have received multiple literary awards and have been translated into ten languages.