Keith Gordon Campbell is the creator of Lester's Dreadful Sweaters, which was awarded an Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Honor and won the 2013 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration, and The Mermaid and the Shoe. He also illustrated the novel Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, by John Newbery Medal-winning author Kate DiCamillo. K. G. Campbell was raised and educated in Scotland and lives in California.