Illustrator Mari Araki, an artist and storyteller, was raised in Ishikawa, a suburb of Kanazawa. She is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and lives in Southern California.
Tina M. is a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy taking a class on the lessons of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Specifically, she’s learning a lot about existentialism, and it’s all just in time, since her social and school lives are somewhat falling apart.