Patrice Lawrence

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Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer. Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Lawrence was born in Brighton, UK, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the south coast of England. Jeanetta Gonzales is a Los Angeles–based designer and illustrator. She describes herself as a free-spirited artist who loves nature. For her, the imperfect is beautiful. Using a combination of paint, inks, and digital illustration, Gonzales evokes happiness, energy, inspiration, and positivity through her love of drawing plants, women, flowers, and lettering phrases.