Charlie Bynar is a award winning author and international artist whose David Bowie portrait was featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum's five-year traveling exhibition, David Bowie Is. Additionally, after her son died, Charlie founded Isaac's Ant Foundation and installed ant exhibits across the country in his memory including at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She published her first children's book, Charlie and the Rainbow Trout, in 2021. Through the Darkness is her first work of narrative nonfiction.