Jessica Love is an American theater actress, author, and illustrator, known for her debut children's picture book Julián is a Mermaid. The book was praised by critics and won the Stonewall Book Award and the Klaus Flugge prize. In 2019 she announced a new picture book, Julián at the Wedding, which was scheduled to be released in October 2020. Before publishing her first book, Love worked as an actress in New York City for thirteen years, and she spent five years writing and illustrating Julián is a Mermaid before finding a publisher. Books As illustrator only References External links Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American actresses American women children's writers American children's writers American women illustrators 21st-century American writers 21st-century American women writers Stonewall Book Award winners 1982 births