Nicole Xu is a Chinese-Canadian illustrator currently living in Brooklyn, NY with her basset hound/lab mix pup. She loves working with ink and experimenting with combining traditional and digital mediums together to create textural, fantastical illustrations. She has worked with clients such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, etc, and her debut picture book, “All of a Sudden and Forever,” written by Chris Barton, was published by Lerner books earlier this year.