Books By Mk Smith Despres - Author

Mk Smith Despres is the author of several picture books with Enchanted Lion Books. They grew up near the ocean in New Jersey, but now live by a river in western Massachusetts where they write, teach, make art, and read lots of books with their family.

Julie Benbassat is an illustrator based in Philadelphia. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, she has gone on to amass a range of clients in editorial, publishing, games, and animation.  Her work delights in the eccentricities and wonders of the natural world, indulges in the fantastical, mixes narrative and portraiture, and highlights the bridge between the cute and the horrific. In spare moments, she relishes reading sassy nonfiction, plein air painting on cloudy days, and watching bad (but good) horror movies.