Jenni Desmond graduated with a Master's Degree in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art and her debut book Red Cat Blue Cat won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! Award in 2012. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages since, and in 2015 Desmond was named Best Emerging Talent (Illustrator) at the Junior Design Awards (UK). In 2016 she was made a Maurice Sendak Fellow and her book The Polar Bear became a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the year.

Jenni lives in London and when she's not in her studio, you'll find her cooking, cycling and swapping city life for long hikes down by the seashore or up in the hills and the mountains.