Pep Montserrat was born in Roda de Ter, near Barcelona. He has created illustrations for El País, La Vanguardia, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, the New Yorker, Harpers’s Magazine, Travel + Leisure and other newspapers and magazines in the United States and Spain. He has also illustrated several children’s books, some of which have been published in Spain, France, Italy, USA, Switzerland, Brazil, Korea and Portugal. His work on children’s books has won numerous awards and honors.