Agent: Shadra Strickland

Jam Dong is an award-winning illustrator and author originally from Shanghai, China. She is currently based in Boston, US. She studied animation in London and received her MFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art. While growing up, Jam enjoyed telling stories to amuse or surprise her friends. She had tons of quirky ideas popping up into her head every day, and thought, why not draw them? This was the beginning of her journey in picture books. In her artwork, she enjoys building interesting and whimsical worlds with basic shapes and colors.  Creating richness with simplicity is her art practice. Though most of her illustrations are done digitally, collage and textures are applied to give her work a handcrafted feel. In addition to illustration, she loves modernist fiction, nature and biology, woodworking, and doing animation and creating animated illustrations/gifs.