Jessica Rose is a writer, editor and arts organizer who lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario. 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 a Children’s Nonfiction Honor Book by the Nature Generation's Green Earth Book Award. It was also commended by the CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, BC Books for Schools, and the Telling Tales Reading List. When she isn’t writing, Jessica is the Artistic Director at gritLIT: Hamilton’s Readers and Writers Festival. A graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, her work has appeared in publications across the country.