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About Grace LinMartha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough is the author of many books for young readers. he teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts blogs for the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators and founded National Grammar Day. She has worked as a newspaper reporter a high school teacher and as editor of MSN.com.Grace Lin is the award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of Starry River of the Sky Where the Mountain Meets the Moon The Year of the Dog The Year of the Rat Dumpling Days and Ling & Ting as well as picture books such as A Big Bed for Little Snow and A Big Mooncake for Little Star Grace is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Massachusetts. Her website is www.gracelin.com.Julia Kuo is a Taiwanese-American illustrator who has worked with the New York Times Wall Street Journal and Google. She also illustrated The Sound of Silence. Julia has taught illustration courses at Columbia College Chicago and at her alma mater Washington University in St. Louis. She was the visual arm of Chicago's 2017 March for Science and has had the honor of being an artist-in-residence at Banff Centre for the Arts in 2014 and in 2017.Julia is currently the recipient of a 2019-2021 Gray Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship at the University of Chicago.