DANIELLE DANIEL is an acclaimed author and illustrator whose journey into art making and book publishing has gone hand in hand with all she has learned — and continues to learn — about her Indigenous ancestry and her relationship with the land. Her picture books include Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox (winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and selected as one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing), Sometimes I Feel Like a River, Once in a Blue Moon and You Hold Me Up, written by Monique Gray Smith. She has also written novels for children and adults and lives on Manitoulin Island among a large family of cedars, a husk of hares and a fifty-year-old Blanding’s turtle, who visits quite regularly.