Meet the author

Victoria Jamieson.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Victoria Jamieson: Newbery-Honor American cartoonist behind Roller Girl and When Stars Are Scattered (with Omar Mohamed) — character-driven, emotionally precise middle-grade graphic novels for ages 8–13.

Victoria Jamieson is an American cartoonist best known for Roller Girl (2015, Newbery Honor), an autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about a girl finding her place in junior roller-derby, and When Stars Are Scattered (with Omar Mohamed, 2020 National Book Award finalist) about Mohamed's childhood in a Kenyan refugee camp. Jamieson's style is character-driven, emotionally precise and accessibly drawn. A core contemporary American middle-grade graphic-novel author for ages 8–13.