Burns, Heather: - Heather Burns is from a little market town called Uttoxeter in the middle of England. She graduated from the University of Lincoln with a degree in illustration in 2013 and has been working as a freelance illustrator ever since. Heather has a passion for bringing stories to life with pictures and creating little worlds for characters to run around in. She enjoys creating colorful, fun illustrations and hopes that her work makes people smile. Since 2015, Heather has been represented by Astound, and her clients include Scholastic, Mattel, Oxford University Press, and Igloo Books.