Jess Racklyeft

After working in the publishing industry sales world for many years, Jess jumped ship a few years ago to follow her dream of illustrating rather than selling books. She's illustrated eight picture books including Crystal Kite and CBCA Notabe Smile Cry, and several titles with Windy Hollow including If Baby Could Talk, Merry Everything and Love Was Hiding.

Working with watercolours and digital illustration, she also creates work for greeting cards, prints and portraits, and more work can be seen at www.jessesmess.com.au. With two young children if she's not drawing she's either constantly reading picture books, visiting the library or book shop, usually with a coffee in hand. Her kind of heaven!