Jane Mount is an illustrator, designer, writer, and maker of things— particularly things for people who love books. She is the creator of Ideal Bookshelf, the author and illustrator of Books Make Good Friends and Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany, and the illustrator and co‑ author of Bibliophile: Diverse Spines (with Jamise Harper) and My Ideal Bookshelf (with Thessaly La Force). She lives in a log cabin on Maui with her husband, three weird cats, and two dogs.