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Our Authors and Illustrators

John Andert is an artist, actor, illustrator, and writer. He and his partner, Sinan Ünel, have made their home in Provincetown for the past twenty years. John's weekly comic strip, Washashores, has appeared in the Provincetown Banner since 1997.

Megan Weeks Adams and her family live in Edgartown and have been year-rounders for seven years. She is a Harvard MBA and former marketing and product executive for Amazon and Disney. She and her husband have been visiting Martha’s Vineyard for most of their lives. They are passionate about sharing their love for the island. Megan worked diligently to capture the essence and charm of the Vineyard in a way both natives and tourists will appreciate.

Megan Adams
with her family

Susan Bouse has always been interested in words, writing, books, and literature. She earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Arizona, and an MA and PhD in literature from the University of California, Irvine. She worked as a journalist and photojournalist; taught literature and writing classes at the University of California, Irvine, and at Metro State University in Denver; worked as a managing editor for a small press in Denver; and, since 2001, has worked as a freelance editor and publishing consultant for authors and presses across the nation. She lives in Denver with her husband and two daughters, who enjoy hiking and skiing in the nearby mountains.

Suwin Chan has been an illustrator and toy designer for more than 18 years. After graduating with an illustration degree from Syracuse University in 1986, she settled in the Boston area and has been illustrating and designing children's toys ever since. She has received numerous national awards for her work, including Parents' Choice awards, National Parenting Publications Awards, and Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products winners. She resides in Haverhill, MA.

Santiago Cohen has illustrated children's books for GP Putnam, Zanner-Bloser, Houghton Mifflin, Warner, Golden Books, Chronicle, and Blue Apple. His illustrations have appeared in major newspapers and magazines including: the NY Times, the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, etc. He has been a film animation director and designer. His work includes: 24 episodes of "Troubles the Cat" produced by the Cartoon Network and Children's Television Network, films for HBO Children specials (two of them won an Emmy, and one won a Peabody award), openers for the French TF!, and spots for LISB and Toys 'R Us. He has designed Christmas cards for MoMA in NY, and he has recently made a film for the Poison Control Center in New York. Mr. Cohen studied Communication Arts in Mexico and received an MFA from the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, NY.

Dennis Clark - Bio coming soon.

Adam Gamble - Publisher and author Adam Gamble is a writer and photographer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He has served since 1995 as publisher of the regional book company On Cape Publications, where he has edited and overseen the production of dozens of books in a variety of genres. He is author of two books of nonfiction, In the Footsteps of Thoreau and A Public Betrayed. Mr. Gamble has conceived, researched, written, and supervised the illustration of the Good Night Our World series of boardbooks. He enjoys learning about children’s books under the tutelage his two young children, Miki and Jack.

Red Hansen was raised in Ajo, a small town in southwestern Arizona. He studied illustration at Brigham Young University. While at school, he worked at the Waterford Institute, where he illustrated numerous books and helped to create games and animations to help children learn to read. His most recent book project was How to Tell Time with Klutz. He and his wife live in Florida with their two children, a boy and a girl; and, at the time of the publication of Good Night Florida, they are expecting the arrival of their third child.

Mark Jasper is the author of 5 books. Haunted Inns of New England, Haunted Cape Cod & the Islands, The Cape Cod Christmas Cookbook, Good Night Charleston and Good Night Florida Keys.
He worked with former ABC producer, Todd Easton, in the production of
Home & Garden TV’s Halloween special, “Ghostly Homes of Cape Cod.” The show was
created based on stories from his first book - Haunted Inns of New England. Mark also worked with LMNO Productions in the creation of one of the Travel Channel’s most popular specials, “Haunted New England”. Mark is now the Director of Marketing for Our World of Books.

Mark Jasper with
his daughter, Hannah

Cooper Kelly grew up in Connecticut and New York City, and currently lives in Paris, France. He works in a variety of styles and has illustrated for a wide range of clients in adult and children’s publishing and in advertising.

Anne Rosen - Anne Rosen is an artist and illustrator based on Outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In addition to illustrating Good Night Martha’s Vineyard and Good Night Nantucket, she is working on the future books Good Night Florida Keys, Good Night New Hampshire and Good Night Rhode Island. She has also illustrated the children’s book When Santa Clause Met Sandy Clause, and the books Our Side of the Bridge and Provincetown, Short Stories from Lands End.

Jay Steere grew up in Vermont, and recently moved to Seattle where he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. In addition to authoring Good Night Seattle, he has written articles for various newspapers and magazines. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Washington.

Michael Tougias (pronounced “Toe-gis”) is a lecturer and author of 16 books. He has owned a cabin in a remote location in Vermont for the past three decades, an experience which inspired both Good Night Vermont and his award-winning There’s A Porcupine In My Outhouse: Misadventures of a Mountain Man Wanna-be. The latter title won the Independent Publishers Association Award for the “The Best Nature Book of the Year” in 2003.

His latest book Fatal Forecast: An Incredible Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea is garnering high praise and making its way onto best-seller lists around the country. His previous, Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do is a Boston Globe Bestseller and was selected by the American Library Association as one of the “Top Books of the Year” in 2005.

Tougias has also written books about Quabbin Reservoir, The Blizzard of ’78, The Connecticut River, and New England Wild Places.

Joe Veno’s artwork encompasses many areas, from children’s books and games to multidimensional sculptures. Within the Good Night Our World series, he has also illustrated Good Night Boston, Good Night New York City, and Good Night Chicago. His client list includes Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt Brace, Target, BP Oil, Honeywell, Hostess, Hasbro, Milton Bradely, Dunkin Donut, and Gummy Candies. Mr. Veno attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art. He lives with his wife, Tara, in a small town north of Boston. They have two grown children.

Christina Vrba (pronounced VERB-ah) is a writer and 6th grade teacher. She graduated from Elms College in Chicopee, MA with a degree in English, then earned her Masters of Arts in Teaching at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Though her passion is writing for children and young adults, she has also written newspaper and magazine articles anda chapter on Internet chat for the bookTripod's Tools for Life.Building on her love of companion animals, she haswritten and illustrated many humor articles for The Corgi Cryer, quarterly magazine of the Mayflower Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club, and contributed cover artwork, chapter header illustrations, and an article to Everything Corgi: Wit and Wisdom for Lovers of Cardis an d Pems. When she's not poking around in the children's section of interesting bookstores across New England, Christina lives in western Connecticut with her husband, son, and a veritable ark of pets. Good Night, Connecticut is her first children's book.

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