Jennifer Yerkes:  

After a scholastic life spent almost entirely in Iowa City, Iowa (we moved there when I was almost five) at Longfellow Elementary, Central Junior High, Southeast Junior High (this last after Central was grievously closed down) and Iowa City High School (you'd think by the name that it was the only high school in town, though it wasn't, as those who attended West and Regina will tell you), I spent a couple of years in Ames at ISU (Graphic Arts) and then went back to Iowa City and the U. of Iowa (Art and Art History) , after which I took off to study in Austria and then in Hungary, a move which has taken me since to a number of countries and in a few different - but similar - directions. These days, it seems I've pretty much settled in Strasbourg, France, where I illustrate and do graphic work and play and hang out with my husband, Jean-Philippe, and our twins, Tomi and Leo. Before arriving back here, though, I spent months and years studying, working and generally living in places such ...Expand for more