Ben Hatke is the author and artist of the New York Times bestselling Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, Julia's House for Lost Creatures, Nobody Likes a Goblin, and the graphic novels Little Robot, Mighty Jack, and Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, as well as the picture books Julia's House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a Goblin. He and his wife, as well as their loud pack of daughters, live and work in the Shenandoah Valley.