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Petra Mathers


* Petra Mathers was born and raised in Germany and moved to the United States as a young woman. She now lives in Portland, Oregon.

* Petra is an illustrator first, and a writer second. While she brews a story of her own on some burner in the back of her mind, she is busy illustrating other people's books.

* Petra compares illustrating other people's books to "visiting". A certain politeness, consideration, and modesty are necessary.

* She is a self-described "sucker for love" and her stories are always about love -- she finds unsung heroes very endearing, as well as the clumsy, balding, fumbling, shy creatures who are quietly heroic, risking everything for love.
Borreguita and the Coyote

Books

Borreguita and the Coyote

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