About Me

I believe that every person in the world has a superpower - something unique that can transform and uplift those around them.  Surprisingly enough, I think mine is drawing crocodile eyebrows.

I trained as a figure painter at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, USA.  Afterwards, I moved to South Korea to teach English for three years, and traveled for another year to Thailand, China, Indonesia, Costa Rica, and northern Iraq. 

One sunny afternoon in Iraq, I was accepted on to the MA Children's Book Illustration course at the Cambridge School of Art.  I moved to England in 2011, and halfway through the MA course, published my first picture book, Harold Finds A Voice, which was shortlisted in the UK for the Waterstones Book Prize. 

A series of WILD board books and a few more picture books have followed since then, The Great Googly Moogly, Lemur Dreamer, Home Tweet Home, A New School for Charlie and For the Love of Lettuce.

I moved back to Wisconsin from England in 2015 to teach full-time in the Graphic Design program at Madison Area Technical College.   You can find me most days in my drawing studio with charcoal fingerprints on my forehead with a snuffling spaniel, Charlie, at my feet.