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Award-winning artist, writer, lecturer, and musical performer Jeanne Maxant Blanchet graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University and was awarded a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study. She earned an MA from Arizona State University and a PhD in Oriental Art History from Hawaii, then spent five additional years in Japan pursuing post-doctoral research. Following a teaching career at various colleges and universities, she is at home in Arizona and Colorado. Jeanne is the author of three children’s books (The Bug in the Rug, Old Salty, and Herbie, the Hoodie). Several collections of her short stories, cartoons and paintings, and musical compositions have been published, and her artwork appears in public and private collections around the United States.