Mei Yu is an award-winning, internationally-published author and artist whose artwork and cheerful personality are loved by youth and parents around the world. She has one of the most popular art channels on YouTube, with over 1.8 million subscribers, 500 million views, and 1,000 art videos. Mei's stories and artwork have been featured in various local and national newspapers, on TV, and radio since 2004.

Mei's debut graphic novel, Lost & Found: Based on a True Story (published by Union Square Kids, a part of Hachette Book Group), won the Forest of Reading's Silver Birch Express Award, an award solely determined by student readers' votes from schools and libraries across Canada.

Mei's most comprehensive how to draw book, Manga Drawing School (published by DK, a part of Penguin Random House), is published in multiple languages worldwide.

YouTube: youtube.com/MeiYu
Website: MeiYuArt.com