Clare Jarrett
Clare Jarrett studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art where she later taught drawing. She worked as a freelance editorial illustrator and visual artist, publishing and exhibiting nationally and internationally. In 1991 she won the Malvern Open Drawing Prize. Since 1996 she has written and illustrated five children’s books. The first,
Catherine and the Lion, won the 1997 Mother Goose Award. Her most recent picture book,
Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar, was published in Spring 2008 by Walker Books. She began writing adult fiction in 2001, received an Arts Council Literature Award in 2005 and completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2007. She is currently working on her first novel.