Grace Lin is both an illustrator and an author of some twenty picture books for children and young adult novels. She was born in 1974 in upstate New York to parents of Taiwanese descent. As a child, she dreamed of being an ice skater but found her true talent was in the visual arts. Unlike her two sisters who went into the sciences, Grace attended Rhode Island School of Design and now lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter (who was the model for Alice in Once Upon a Book), and five chickens. She absolutely loves creating children’s books, and it shows in everything she does. She is a Caldecott and Newbery Honoree, has won numerous other awards, and is a New York Times best-selling illustrator and author. Once Upon a Book was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 2023. In addition to her exhibition at FAM, she has a retrospective opening at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts later in 2025.