Josh Tuininga is an author, artist, and design­er liv­ing in North Bend, Wash­ing­ton. After study­ing fine art at the School of the Art Insti­tute of Chica­go, he found­ed an art and design agency, where he con­tin­ues to work as its cre­ative direc­tor. His work has been pub­lished in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Arts mag­a­zine and HOW Design mag­a­zine, and he was award­ed with the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Arts Award for excel­lence in illus­tra­tion. Tuininga is the author of the children’s books Why Blue? (Xist Pub­lish­ing, 2014) and Dream On (Indiegogo cam­paign, 2019). We Are Not Strangers, which has been award­ed a 4Culture Her­itage Grant, is his first graph­ic novel.