Lisa Jahn-Clough is the author/illustrator of over a dozen picture books, including ALICA HAS A BAD DAY and MY FRIEND AND I, which won awards from the Bank Street College of Education and Child Magazine, among others. She is also the author of three YA novels. She has taught courses on writing for children at Emerson College, Vermont College of Fine Arts, and Hamline University, and currently teaches at Rowan University.