Kathleen Morton is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She has done several book covers for author Robert V. Aldrich and has her work published in a student compilation book for the Communications Arts department at VCU titled Gumbo. Her passion lies in illustrating animals, both the real and fantastic, and wishes to promote awareness of the creatures us and urge people to help preserve the environment to be able to keep the animals in her work alive to be enjoyed outside of just illustrations. Her creativity lends itself to be able to devise alluring mythical creatures to inspire the imaginations of viewers.