VASHTI HARRISON is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends, and Big, a 2023 National Book Award finalist in Young People’s Literature. She is the illustrator of Andrea Beaty’s I Love You Like Yellow, Matthew Cherry’s Hair Love, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hello, Star, among others. She received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe and is also a two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children. She earned her BA in studio art and media studies from the University of Virginia and her MFA in film/video from CalArts, where she rekindled a love for drawing and painting. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and invites you to visit her at vashtiharrison.com or on Instagram and X @vashtiharrison.