Kayla Harren graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in illustration. Her work has been featured in the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, and 3x3 Magazine. She won the Highlights for Children Pewter Plate Award, and she is the illustrator of A BOY LIKE YOU, which won the 2019 Eureka Nonfiction Gold Award, and THE BOY WHO GREW A FOREST, which won the Eureka Nonfiction Silver Award. Kayla lives in Minnesota.