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.

Dorothy Leung studied and worked in architecture before taking the headlong plunge into her illustration dream. In her work she strives to evoke empathy, nostalgia and wonder. When the Wind Came is her first book; The Bird Feeder is her second.~ ~A subtle, constant presence in Dorothy’s periphery, birds have always been a point of fascination for her. They remind her of adaptability, resilience, freedom, spirit and the passage of time. Dorothy lives near Tkaronto (Toronto), Ontario.~Twitter: @doroleung~Instagram: @doroleung~Facebook: @doroleung

Madeline Kloepper is a Canadian artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a major in illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She grew up in the lower mainland of British Columbia but moved northward to the traditional lands of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation, also known as Prince George. She lives happily in a little old house with her partner, Ben, and sweet pup, Heidi.#When she is not out admiring the mountains and mighty trees around her, you can find her in her making art in her studio, making pottery, sipping coffee or a combination of the three.#She has illustrated several children’s books, including The Keeper of the Wild Words; Tiny, Perfect Things; Rooster Summer and Little Blue Chair. Madeline has even written a couple of her own: Outside Art and The Not-So Great Outdoors.#Madeline gravitates towards creating children’s books that have a strong connection to the natural world or sense of nostalgia. She loves combining gouache painting with colored pencil and Photoshop when she’s creating her artwork.~Instagram: @madelinekloepper~Facebook: @madelinekloepperillustration

A party of dapper little penguins on a milk glass launched Julien Chung’s illustration career back when he was seeking a new creative adventure. Being a news designer for a major metropolitan newspaper was very serious business indeed, so drawing quirky animal characters was a way of lightening things up a bit.#Since then, inspired by the minimalism of poster art and postage stamps, his stylized characters and designs have graced products, from pet dishes to beer glasses, and books around the world, from Reykjavik to Tokyo.#With nine published books and several more in the works, Julien has earned accolades for his illustrations from 3×3 magazine, the American Society of Illustrators, the New York Society of Illustrators, Applied Arts, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Nami Concours and SCBWI. His favorite awards are the Glass Slipper Award and the Purple Island Award.#Making art and reading have always been a big part of Julien’s life. An early childhood photo shows Julien (looking serious, but feeling gleeful inside) drawing one, just one, squirrelly dramatic line with a thick wax crayon on a large piece of construction paper and then tossing it aside to attack the next one (so says his mom).#His mom, an artist, had a lovely collection of children’s books illustrated with woodcuts. His dad, an engineer, was a fan of modern architecture and Scandinavian furniture. Both tried to share their cultures with Julien by buying him two books: This Is Munich (she was Austrian) and This Is Hong Kong (he was Chinese) by Miroslav Šašek, but Julien preferred This Is New York with its big red fire engine and gray skyscrapers on the bright yellow cover.#Julien has a fondness for airports, ice cream and illustrated maps. He collects stamps, pins and toys. Christmas is his favorite holiday. He lives near Montreal with his wife in an empty nest so high up they sometimes see a falcon or two fly by as they are sipping their morning coffee. It’s kind of scary being so close to the clouds, yet awesome.#He was born in the Year of the Dog and has a soft spot for man’s best friend. He enjoys drawing, sketching and painting dogs of all kinds. Snoopy, Snowy and Lassie were his best friends. Do not ask him to draw a horse. He cannot draw horses. And he just can’t get monkeys right either.