Ellen T. Crenshaw

Ellen T. Crenshaw (she/her) is a cartoonist and illustrator living on Massachusetts' North Shore. She is the creator of the New York Times bestselling Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adaptations of STACEY'S MISTAKE, KRISTY AND THE WALKING DISASTER, and JESSI RAMSEY, PET-SITTER by Ann M. Martin. She is the co-creator with Colleen AF Venable of KISS NUMBER 8, which was nominated for the 2019 National Book Award and the 2020 Eisner Award. A longtime creator of history comics, her first nonfiction graphic novel is WHAT WAS THE TURNING POINT OF THE CIVIL WAR? ALFRED WAUD GOES TO GETTYSBURG, a Who HQ title. When she's not making comics, she loves playing video games, hiking with her dog, and analyzing movies with her husband.