Lauren Stringer is an artist, author, and theatrical designer living in Minneapolis, MN. Her first illustrated picture book, Mud, written by Mary Lyn Ray, won a Minnesota Book Award, IRA Children's Choice, and Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year. She has illustrated many award-winning picture books, including Scarecrow and Snow, both by Cynthia Rylant, Fold Me A Poem, by Kristine O'Connell George, Our Family Tree, an Evolution Story, by Lisa Westberg Peters, The Princess and Her Panther, by Wendy Orr, and Tell Me About Your Day Today, by Mem Fox. She own Winter is the Warmest Season was a Booklist Editor's Choice. Her newest book, When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky, Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot, was awarded the McKnight Fellowship for Children's Literature.