Michael Wertz is an illustrator and printer whose clients include the San Francisco Chronicle; Bill Graham Presents; Chronicle Books; the de Young Museum; the Exploratorium; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Gingko Press; Oaklandish; Random House; the New York Times; Nike; the Oakland Museum of California; Scholastic; SFMOMA; the United Way; and Wired. He is the author of A Dazzling Display of Dogs and A Curious Collection of Cats, and he lives in beautiful Oakland, California.