Meet author Cat Willett while cuddling kittens from Browncoat Cat Rescue! Willet will sign copies of Unconditional: Stories of Women and the Animals They Love after the event.

Cat Willett is an illustrator and author based in Brooklyn, NY. Her new book, Unconditional, Stories of Women and the Animals They Love, is an intimate and moving collection of stories about women and their life-changing relationships with animals, told in vivid graphic novel style. She holds an MFA in Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Cat loves to teach art workshops, especially to non-artists, and she is currently an adjunct professor at LaGuardia Community College, where she teaches the history of illustration, from medieval art to modern illustration in all its forms.