Nikki McClure is a papercut artist and the author and illustrator of Waiting for High Tide, Collect Raindrops; In; Mama, Is It Summer Yet?; To Market, To Market; Apple; and How to Be a Cat. She is also the illustrator of All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant and May the Stars Drip Down by Jeremy Chatelain. Nikki lives in Olympia, Washington.