J.R. Potter is the award-winning author and illustrator of the Thomas Creeper series about a reluctant thirteen-year-old mortician turned detective for the dead. The novel won the 2019 Kraken Prize for Middle Grade Fiction is now featured in libraries from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia and included in two teaching curricula in the United States and the Dominican Republic. His graphic novel work has been published by Image Comics, and his short fiction has appeared in the The Portland Review and various fiction anthologies. When not writing about ghosts with vendettas or teenage underdogs, Potter writes and illustrates for educational publishers Pioneer Valley Books and Heinemann Publishing, helping boost literacy, empathy, and wonder in schools across the world.
