Rashin Kheiriyeh has published over eighty books in countries around the world and created illustrations for The New York Times. She received a PhD in illustration and an MFA in graphic design from Alzahra University in Tehran. She's the winner of the 2021 Sheila Barry Best Canadian Picturebook Award of the Year, she was named a 2017 Maurice Sendak Fellow, and was the winner of the New Horizon Award at the Bologna Book Fair. She was born in Iran and currently lives in Washington, DC.

In this episode of How Do You Do? Podcast, Ben asks Rashin about the inspiration behind her characters & stories, how she infuses her Iranian heritage into her work, how she's able to anticipate what kind of stories her young demographic would enjoy reading, and more.

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