Thao Lam  is the best-selling, critically acclaimed author/illustrator of  THAO, Wallpaper,  My Cat Looks Like My Dad,  Skunk on a String and The Paper Boat, named a best book of 2020 by Kirkus,  Booklist,  School Library Journal, the Globe and Mail, CBC and others. She studied illustration at Sheridan College and has an insatiable love of coloured and textured papers, which she uses to create her exuberant collages. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.