Julia Kuo is the author and illustrator of Home Is a Wish, Let’s Do Everything and Nothing and Luminous: Living Things that Light Up the Night. She is the illustrator of several picture books including I Dream of Popo by Livia Blackburne and I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story by Martha Brockenbrough and Grace Lin. Julia has created editorial illustrations for publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. She has taught at Columbia College Chicago and at her alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Bellevue, WA.