Meet the Author

CHERYL LONG will arrive in Hong Kong to launch DRAGON DREAMS in March 2007 as well as to participate in the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival.

Click here for her schedule of book readings, children's events and other appearances.

CHERYL LONG lives in Quebec, Canada, and has been an illustrator for 15 years. Her projects have included board games, children's products and pharmaceutical illustration. In addition to drawing and painting, Cheryl also writes and has a collection of fables for girls and women entitled TWELVE MOONS AND A MAIDEN, and a novel set in rural Quebec entitled SHINE.

She has a degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, where she was born. She has since moved closer to nature, and now Quebec's mountains, trees and rivers inspire her artwork and words. She loves walking in the woods, listening hard to the silence and jumping in newly melted river water each spring.

"The forest was always a magical place for me," says Cheryl. "There is a sense of mystery, something powerful hidden in the whisper of trees and the rushing of streams."

DRAGON DREAMS is her first children's book and she is now at work on a second one involving science.

Cheryl lives with her husband, photographer/carpenter Gary Matthews, and sons Evan and Sam.