Michaela Goade is a Caldecott Medalist and a #1 New York Times bestselling artist. She is the illustrator of a number of award-winning and bestselling books, including We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and I Sang You Down from the Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner. Her summer 2022 release, Berry Song, marks her author-illustrator debut. She is a member of the Tlingit Nation and grew up on her ancestral homelands along the southeast coast of Alaska, where she lives today on an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea.