As a child, Meghan Marentette loved collecting odds and ends to build miniature homes for her toy animals, and wandering in the woods, building forts from fallen logs. As an adult, she turned her love of craft into a career in the film industry, eventually becoming costume designer for a stop motion animation TV series. It was during that job she was reminded of her childhood passion for tiny worlds, inspiring her to write a children’s novel about a family of mice (The Stowaways―Pajama Press, 2013), before moving on to create an actual tiny world in her photo-illustrated diorama picture book, Rumie Goes Rafting (Owlkids, 2024). She lives near the forest in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she continues to combine her love of writing, craft and nature into stories about Rumie.