Daniel Gray-Barnett is an award-winning illustrator and author who lives in the Huon Valley in Tasmania with hishusband, German shorthaired pointers and chickens. Self-taught, he studied medical science at the University of Sydneybefore swapping his microscope for pencils when he realised illustration had a much lower patient-mortality rate. His bookGrandma Z won the Children's Book Council of Australia award for Best New Illustrator. It was also featured in the Societyof Illustrators' Original Art and annual shows and was chosen by the International Youth Library as one of 2019's WhiteRavens.