Rebecca Lee Kunz (b. 1975 Norman, OK) is a multi-media artist and the owner of Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned a BFA in painting from the College of Santa Fe in 1998. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, her work draws upon traditional iconography and is greatly inspired by mythic and archetypical symbolism, where each of her paintings serves as an invocation and a prayer. Chooch Helped is her debut picture book. Illustrator residence: Sante Fe, NM