Jacinta Farragher
While living in Thailand, Jacinta found that snippets of quirky verse popped into her brain every time she had a massage. Naturally, she wanted to explore this further, so started having massages twice a week, and is now a children’s picture book author!
Jacinta’s passion is writing fun picture books, with messages that uplift and empower. She plans to spend the next few decades writing books that will inspire children and adults alike for generations to come.
Jacinta’s debut picture book “Joy’s Journey” is an adventurous quest story about realising the joy is in the journey.
Another of Jacinta’s stories – “My Magic” has been published in the anthology “It’s A Kind Of Magic: Stories and Spells by Second-Rate Sorcerers.
These will soon be followed by a second picture book “Joy’s Way” – a fun story about doing things your own way.
Manka Kasha
Maria Biktimirova aka Manka Kasha is an illustrator born and raised in Russia.
She has illustrated several children’s books all over the world and even wrote one herself, featuring her recurrent character- Small Knight. Her favourite medium is watercolor and she has a specific soft spot for drawing galaxies and winter scenes.
Apart from illustrating, Maria works as a lecturer, teaching linguistics and literature to some troublemaking English majors.
Maria’s dream is to continue illustrating (and maybe writing) picture books, to help kids and grownups feel understood and inspired.