Rowan Merris

Rowan Merris is a writer, illustrator, and designer whose creative life has always lived at the intersection of imagery, language, and imagination. Before creating Crumbville™, Rowan spent years shaping the visual worlds of high-end fashion catalogs and editorial magazines, developing a cinematic eye for color, character, and storytelling that now infuses every page of the books.

For well over a decade, Rowan has collected story seeds in every form—notes on a phone, long lists of intriguing words, phrases overheard in cafés, character ideas scribbled in margins, and late-night voice memos full of half-dreamed plot twists. Those fragments slowly grew into Crumbville™, a warm and whimsical town filled with humor, heart, and characters readers fall instantly in love with.

Rowan writes the stories, illustrates the worlds, and designs each book in meticulous detail, bringing a fully unified vision to life. Drawn to themes of honesty, courage, integrity, kindness, and the quiet magic of everyday life, Rowan continues to craft new adventures for Pernicious, Mary Droppins, Sassy with a Z, and the ever-growing cast of Crumbville.