Christina Wald is a designer, illustrator, and educator. After illustrating over 60 picture books, she has finally written a book! Sketching Here & Everywhere: My Sketching Obsession is the culmination of years of teaching sketching to others and her own journey. 

She loves to travel and sketch all over the world and recently went to New Zealand with the Urban Sketchers in spring 23, did a month-long artist residency at Chateau d'Orquevaux in the Champagne region of France last summer and produced a Travelogue about the experience, and is taking groups of sketchers to Romania in June of 24. She started the Urban Sketchers Cincinnati group in 2017.

Her picture books are sold all over the world from the San Diego Zoo (which she has illustrated 3 books for including their Centennial children's book) to The Wild Life of Elk in gift shops in the Grand Tetons to Camas & Sage: A Story of Bison Life on the Prairie in Yellowstone, to her latest, Return to Kew Gardens on sale at Kew Gardens in 2022! She also regularly illustrates books for a publisher in Switzerland written in German including by Yodeling star Melanie Oesch!

She teaches illustration and narrative storytelling at Northern Kentucky University and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and 3 cats.