Reid Psaltis is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest. He has always been fascinated by animal life and compelled to draw. Psaltis majored in oil painting at Western Washington University, completed the science illustration graduate program at California State University- Monterey Bay. Psaltis interned in the Exhibitions Department at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, participating in the creation of the museum's world famous dioramas. Reid's book, the Order of Things: A Bestiary was published by Secret Acres in 2016. His work has been featured online at the Rumpus, Top Shelf 2.0, Study Group Comics and Trip City. His work has been published by Scout Books' Good Ink series, Science Notes and Alternative Comics, and he is the illustrator of Dan Bern’s the Gods of Second Chances (Forest Avenue Press). Reid currently lives in Portland, Oregon.