Jessica Love is the award winning author & illustrator of Julián Is a Mermaid, Julián at the Wedding and A Bed of Stars. She studied Visual Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then Drama at The Juilliard School. She lived New York City for 15 years making plays, and now she lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and son, and making books.  jesslove.format.com

Awards

The Stonewall Book Award, The Ezra Jack Keats Award, The Bologna Children’s Book Fair Opera Prima Award, The Klaus Flugge Prize, a Society of Illustrators Silver Medal and the Golden Poppy Book Award.

3 Fun Facts

1. I am an actor, as well as an author/illustrator.
2. My first book, Julián is a Mermaid is now a feature length film, created by Cartoon Saloon in Ireland!
3. My studio is an old one-room school house that I heat with wood.