Giselle Potter is an illustrator and author whose work is deeply influenced by an unconventional childhood spent traveling with her family’s puppet theater company, “The Mystic Paper Beasts,” across the United States and Europe. These early experiences inspired her autobiographical children’s books "The Year I Didn’t Go To School and "Chloe’s Birthday… and Me". Potter graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 and spent her final year in Rome through the school’s European Honors Program. After moving to Brooklyn, she began her professional illustration career with The New Yorker, which led to numerous commissions for magazines and children’s literature. She has illustrated more than thirty books.