Kristen Watterson has been a professional graphic designer and illustrator since 1999.  An artist from a young age, writing books was always one of her dreams.  She started drawing characters and writing story fragments as a young girl growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

Kristen married her husband in college at ORU.  Her career has been verried, but always revolving around art in some way.  She was a certified teacher (teaching junior high art and high school biology) and she has been the Creative Director at a successful marketing firm.  Currently, she freelances graphic design and illustration as she continues to write books.  She is a nerd to the core and enjoys scifi books and movies, coffee and tea, knitting, reading, drawing, and painting.  Kristen and her husband are pastors in full-time ministry and have two daughters.  

 

In 2014, Kristen had complications during pregnancy which led to the birth of a baby girl, Suzie, at 23 weeks gestation.  Suzie was perfect in every way, other than being born way too early.  She only weighed 1.6 pounds.  The doctors and nurses were amazed at how well she was doing – she hardly needed breathing assistance, even for someone of that small size and developmental age.  

 

Suzie lived for 18 days.  She would have lived longer because nothing was wrong with her, but she contracted an infection and being so small, she simply wasn’t able to overcome.  

 

Suzie was a miracle.  Even though she only lived a short time, she was a testiment to the miracle of life.  A perfect picture of God’s divine design.  What is amazes Kristen the most, is that some states allow abortions of babies at the age Suzie was when she was born.  It’s astonishing that some people would believe the lie that an unborn baby is just a mass of cells – something not alive.  Suzie was very much alive.  There was no question, even despite the circumstances of her extremely early birth, that she was a perfectly formed living baby girl.

 

Kristen, having suffered two miscarriages and the loss of a living child, is passionate about proclaiming the value of unborn life.