Jamie Hogan is a critically acclaimed author and illustrator. She has published illustrations in newspapers, periodicals, and numerous award-winning children's books, including Island Birthday, which won the 2015 Lupine Award, and Rickshaw Girl, which was named one of the Best 100 Books by the New York Public Library and won the Jane Addams Peace Association Award and the Maine Library Association's Lupine Award. She lives with her husband and daughter on an island in Casco Bay.