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Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische grew up in Pennsylvania. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she works as a letterer, illustrator, type designer, and relentless procrastiworker. Clients include Wes Anderson, Dave Eggers, The New York Times, Tiffany & Co., OXFAM America, McSweeney's, American Express, Target, Victoria's Secret, Chronicle Books, Nike, and Samsung. website: jessicahische.is | twitter: @jessicahische.
My First Book of Fancy Letters
Who Will U Be?
Brave, Kind, and Grateful
Tomorrow I'll Be Kind
Tomorrow I'll Be Brave
The Joy Luck Club
When You Are Old
Sky Burial
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose
Cannery Row
The Greek Coffin Mystery
BUtterfield 8
Swann's Way
Five Children and It
Moby-Dick
An Artist of the Floating World
Native Speaker
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Secret Life of Bees
Siddhartha
Middlemarch
Jane Eyre
My Antonia
Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations
Madame Bovary
Candide
The Shadow of the Wind
Lord of the Flies
Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath
Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Books

My First Book of Fancy Letters
Who Will U Be?
Bad Drawer
Brave, Kind, and Grateful
Tomorrow I'll Be Kind
Tomorrow I'll Be Brave
The Joy Luck Club
When You Are Old
Sky Burial
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose
Cannery Row
The Greek Coffin Mystery
BUtterfield 8
Swann's Way
Five Children and It
Moby-Dick
An Artist of the Floating World
Native Speaker
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Secret Life of Bees
Siddhartha
Middlemarch
Jane Eyre
My Antonia
Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations
Madame Bovary
Candide
The Shadow of the Wind
Lord of the Flies
Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath
Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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