Jessica Lanan is an award-winning author and artist from Longmont, Colorado. She’s the illustrator of many children’s books including Lee & Low Books’s The Story I’ll Tell which received two starred reviews. Jessica’s first book as an author-illustrator, The Fisherman and the Whale, was awarded the 2020 Bull-Bransom Award for Wildife Art. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she enjoys thunderstorms, crunching autumn leaves beneath her feet, and leaving footprints in freshly fallen snow. Visit her online at jessicalanan.com.