Jessica Rose is a writer, editor and arts organizer who lives and works in Hamilton. Her first book of middle grade nonfiction, Let’s Get Creative: Art for a Healthy Planet, was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and was commended by the CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, BC Books for Schools, and the Telling Tales Reading List. Most recently, Let’s Get Creative was named a Children’s Nonfiction Honor Book by the Nature Generation’s Green Earth Book Award. A graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, Jessica’s work has appeared in Quill and Quire, Room, The Children’s Book News, the Hamilton Review of Books, THIS, and Hamilton City Magazine, among others. When she isn’t writing, Jessica is the Artistic Director at gritLIT: Hamilton’s Readers and Writers Festival, which brings 30+ authors to Hamilton every April.