Mackenzie Joy grew up in northern California where spent her time drawing, reading books, playing sports, and having outdoor adventures with her family. She received her MBA in 2014, and has worked in sustainability, analytics and data storytelling, user experience research and business strategy, and getting people early-morning coffees as a barista. As an artist, she loves to scribble and paint on non-traditional canvases like shoes, grandfather clocks, and matryoshka. As a writer, she enjoys feeling the rhythm of sentences and finding the perfect sounds and words. As a storyteller, she wants to share stories that are quirky, hopeful, and make you think. WALLFLOWERS is her debut book as author-illustrator. Mackenzie lives near Berkeley, California. Visit her at mackenziejoy.art. Instagram: @lefthandedsmile