Ann Howard

Author and illustrator Ann Howard was born in a small town in "Butterfly Valley", deep in the mountains of Taiwan. She spent her childhood wandering the hillsides, chasing butterflies and dragonflies and sketching everything she saw.

She has been a professional artist most of her adult life, painting surreal oils and watercolor illustrations. The 'Peach Blossom Village Stories' are a poetic and artistic patchwork of her childhood memories interwoven with the landscape of her Northern California home. She previously translated two works from Chinese to English under her maiden name Hsiao-Yen Chen. This is Ann's first work of fiction.