Nhung Tran-Davies is a physician, author, mother of three and an advocate for social justice through education. Born in Vietnam, the youngest of six children, she was five when she and her family came to Canada in 1979 after spending eight months in a Malaysian refugee camp. Green Papayas is her fifth picture book. She lives in Calmar, Alberta.

Gillian Newland is a visual artist whose multimedia work appears in a number of publications, ranging from magazines, to book covers, to children’s picture books. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  

"Green Papayas is a sensitive and memorably thoughtful picture book story by Nhung Tan-Davies that is enriched and illustrated by the museum quality artwork of Gillian Newland. Green Papayas is especially and unreservedly recommended for family, elementary school, and community library collections for children ages 5-9."
— Midwest Book Review