When Kris is not in the studio you can find her whipping up a yummy snack in the kitchen, hiking a pine-scented trail, or under a blanket with a good book. Kris lives in Davis, California. She has two great kids and a furry monster named Pippa.

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Kris illustrated Bible Gems to Remember, 2019, Catch a Kiss, 2016, The Peculiar Haunting of Thelma Bee, 2016, Lizzie and the Last Day of School, 2015 and she wrote Hush-a-Bye Counting, 2008.

 

She has illustrated and written poems for Ladybug, Spider, and Cricket Magazines. Her poems have appeared in My America, A Poetry Atlas of the United States, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, in audio magazines, and in anthologies edited by Betsy Franco.