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this moth saw brightness

Published May 2025 from Dutton / Penguin Random House, this weird novel took me a very long time to write. It went through many evolutions. I am proud of what it became.

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Mary Colgan at Chronicle Books has bought world English rights to the Lark series, an illustrated early chapter book series by Jenn Bishop, illustrated by A. A. Vacharat. The series follows the adventures of a girl with a big imagination.

lARK SERIES (as illustrator)

Coming Fall 2027, the first in a series of illustrated early chapter books written by Jenn Bishop. These books are charming, sweet, funny and full of imagination. The first book is Lark Grows a Cat!

Coming Fall 2027

limit theory (as illustrator)

I was the illustrator for this lovely collection of poems that are like a pastural William Carlos Williams: simple, brief, and focused on nature and tiny human moments.

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A.A. Vacharat: Writer, Artist, Opinion-Haver. violently inconsistent maker of things.