Valéry Goulet grew up in Québec. That’s where she first fell in love with illustration. Dreaming up worlds as a child turned into academic ambition as an adult. She studied at Université Laval and earned a Master’s in Interaction Design.#In 2002, when illustration opportunities beckoned out west, Valéry moved to a street in Edmonton where the stop signs say arrête. Home away from home.#Since her move to Alberta, she’s worked with global brands and agencies. And her illustrations have garnered attention far and wide.#When she’s not illustrating, she’s teaching. Valéry instructs for the Visual Communication Design Program at the University of Alberta. She also teaches in the Bachelor of Design program at MacEwan University. By inspiring others, she connects with the spirit of creativity that fueled her dreams as a child. Even though her first home is far away, her craft somehow always brings her back.~Instagram: @valerydesignwrks~Twitter: @valerydesignwrk

Born in Hong Kong, Dawn Lo is an illustrator currently based in Vancouver, unceded lands of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Her work has appeared in picture books, stationery, greeting cards, public art installations, murals and more! Dawn aims to create works that are high-spirited and whimsical while retaining a certain degree of simplicity and humor. Most of her work is inspired by little, everyday moments and personal multicultural experiences. When she is not drawing at her home studio, she works at the public library where she can surround herself with more books.~Instagram: @dawndawndawnillustration~Twitter: @dawndawnillo~Tumblr: @dawndawndawnprocess

Ana Sender began her illustration career in textile design but now mostly illustrates children’s books, and even writes them herself sometimes. Her books include The Cottingley Fairies and The Orchid Hunter. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Nicole Miles is an illustrator from The Bahamas, but she currently lives in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, with her pet snake and human boyfriend. After five and a half years of designing cards for Hallmark UK, she jumped into full-time freelance life in January of 2020. She has worked with a variety of clients including the New York Times, BuzzFeed, Seal Press, Simon & Schuster, Putnam, Sisters from AARP and Bravery Magazine. Her comic Barbara (ShortBox, 2017) was nominated for an Eisner Award.#She has been asked to speak to illustration students at Cardiff Metropolitan University (several times) and at the Afro Futures Un-conference (2019) in Birmingham. In 2018, she became a special visiting lecturer for Sheffield Hallam University where she gets great pleasure in doing occasional teaching sessions with first-year illustration students.#Her favorite form of procrasti-working is always some sort of making, whether it be bettering her hand-lettering, making animated gifs, chronicling silly life moments or informative sustainability tips in comic form, experimenting with film photography or sewing new garments for herself. But she also dedicates a lot of time to improving her second language (French), reading and, recently, going on forest walks.#Nicole loves how children’s books can discuss such a huge range of topics and feelings. They can teach, inspire, validate, make people feel seen; they can be sombre, funny, weird or all of these things at once. She hopes her images will engage readers with the text while also making them feel like the worlds in the books she illustrates extend beyond the pages and continue in their imaginations.~Instagram: @nicolemillo~Twitter: @nicolemillu

Morgan Goble grew up in Strathroy, Ontario, and decided in kindergarten that she wanted to be an illustrator when she grew up. She received a Bachelor of Illustration from Sheridan College in 2019, where she discovered her love for digital art, and she continues to focus on mimicking traditional media in her digital work. Morgan especially loves drawing people, and she always brings special attention to character design in her illustration projects.#Morgan’s first published book is Wednesday Wilson Gets Down to Business, and she is excited to be working on a series that reminds her of her own childhood endeavors, with a driven main character whose big ideas get her into a little mischief.#Today, Morgan lives in London, Ontario, with her husband, Andy, and her cat, Noni. She spends her days drawing, journaling and leaving half-finished cups of tea all over the house.