Ward Jenkins

Ward Jenkins is a children's book illustrator and storyboard artist from the Atlanta, Georgia area. He's illustrated picture books for Simon & Schuster (CHICKS RUN WILD and HOW TO TRAIN WITH A T.REX AND WIN 8 GOLD MEDALS) and Chronicle Books (NEW YORK, BABY! and SAN FRANCISCO, BABY!). Other books he's illustrated are SALAM ALAIKUM: A MESSAGE OF PEACE (Salaam Reads) and ROCKET SHOES (Sterling Publishing). He also illustrated TALES OF THE DAIRY GODMOTHER: CHUCK'S ICE CREAM WISH (Feeding Minds), which won the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture's prestigious Book Of The Year for 2021. In between illustrating books, he's also a storyboard artist for such shows as My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Snoopy In Space, Camp Snoopy, and Ada Twist, Scientist.

Ward's latest endeavor has been illustrating Stuart Gibbs's Moon Base Alpha graphic novel series.

Ward lives with his wife Andrea, who's a writer and photographer, and they have two kids: Ava and Ezra (both are nascent artists). He hasn't shaved his beard since 2010.