Vesper Stamper is an illustrator living in Jersey City with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper and her two fairy children. She is the recipient of the 2012 Lincoln City Fellowship, which currently has her in the Outer Hebrides producing her graphic novel, "The Sea-King's Children", about a girl whose life changes when she finds a swan's egg. Her new picture book, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Samizdat, 2013) is a children's retelling of Ibsen and Grieg's "Peer Gynt".