I was born in Maine, in the northeast corner of the United States. Maine is just famous enough to be inundated by vacationers every summer, but not famous enough for people to say, "Oh, MAINE!" when you mention it.

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I went to school at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. After that, I went to France and got certified in TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language). Finally, I was ready for my lifelong dream of living abroad, and packed up and moved to Taiwan.

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My plan was to teach English and write children's novels on the side. What I learned instead was that I was nowhere near ready to write books for children. I spent the next four years learning what children like, how they think, and how to tell stories in a way that kept them engaged. I could keep an entire room of seven year olds quiet just by drawing on a whiteboard. It was in my final year of teaching that I learned, writing novels wasn't my passion—illustration was.

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With that in mind, I do my best to draw things that both children and adults can enjoy. My mission is to create illustrations that ignite the imagination like a firecracker.