Megan Clendenan has lived in cities of all sizes and loves to explore new neighborhoods on foot. She has worked for women's rights, mental health and youth empowerment nonprofit organizations as well as for an environmental law group. Megan is the author of
Fresh Air, Clean Water, part of the Orca Think series; co-author of
Design Like Nature, part of the Orca Footprints series; and the author of
Offbeat, a novel for young readers. Megan lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family.
Suharu Ogawa is a Toronto-based illustrator. Her love for drawing started in a kindergarten art school after being kicked out of calligraphy class for refusing to convert to right-handedness. Formally trained in art history and cultural anthropology, she worked for several years as a university librarian until her passion for illustration called her out of that career and into the pursuit of a lifelong dream. Since then, Suharu has created illustrations for magazines, public art projects and children's books, including Why Humans Work: How Jobs Shape Our Lives and Our World in the Orca Think line. She also teaches illustration at OCAD University in Toronto.
