As a reader, writer, illustrator, lifelong student of history and just overall lover of books, I was so excited to create the artwork for a festival celebrating books, readers and writers. In the artwork, I wanted to show characters who reminded me of the people I see walking around Brooklyn: those deep in a novel on the subway, pulling out a pen to save a resonating line at the cafe, or at home in the sun, with a box to pass on a book or two to the passerby who finds it on the stoop.