Jason Chin is the author and illustrator of many acclaimed picture books. He received the 2022 Caldecott Medal for Watercress by Andrea Wang and a Caldecott Honor, Sibert Honor, and the NCTE Orbis Pictus award for Grand Canyon. His most recent book, Life After Whale, written by Lynn Brunelle, won the 2025 Robert F. Sibert Medal and was named an Orbis Pictus Honor Book. His next book, Hurricane, will be published in May 2025.