EUGENIE FERNANDES grew up painting with her father, a comic-book illustrator, and has become a celebrated artist in her own right, illustrating more than one hundred books and writing and illustrating twenty-five, including When Rabbit Was a Lion. Her illustrations for Earth Magic by Dionne Brand were nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award, and paintings from two of her books are in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. Eugenie lives in Ontario.