Andrea Rowe is a best-selling, award-winning picture book author. Andrea loves to write stories where characters explore the great outdoors, ponder big questions and move through tricky feelings, which inspire conversations amongst children, families and educators. Her picture book, Jetty Jumping (illustrated by Hannah Sommerville), was awarded the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year – Early Childhood.  Andrea is also the winner of several Australian short story awards, an ambassador for Australian children’s literature, an Ardoch Youth Foundation Writer In Resident and Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation mentor, and has been awarded a 2024 May Gibbs Fellowship.