Landing in a New Pond

Marisa Ramel is author of the award-winning memoir for adults, The Goodbye Diaries.The mother-daughter memoir was praised as "beautiful, wise, tender and true" by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, and was named one of the "17 Books Every Girl Should Read Before She's 17" by Seventeen magazine. Marisa has written for Time, Good Morning America, Glamour, PopSugar, and more. Marisa, her husband, and their two children moved from Brooklyn, NY, to Boulder, CO, where they've befriended numerous ducks and where Marisa is now a librarian. This is her first picture book.

Jennifer Doehring is the author and illustrator of The Wanderer's Journal series, a group of illustrated guided hiking journals for adults, and an illustrator of children's picture books. She received her fine-art degree from the University of California, Irvine, and owns art studio Palette Passions, where she teaches painting and drawing to intermediate and advanced students. In her spare time, Jennifer loves to backcountry camp and gathers most of her creative inspiration from nature. She lives in Southern California with her husband and their English bulldog, Snickers. www.jenniferdoehringbooks.com