Mei Yu

Mei Yu is an internationally-published, award-winning author and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has over 2 million followers and 500 million views across her social platforms on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. She specializes in drawing a wide variety of art styles and can create any art style and illustration to suit any publishing need. Mei’s debut graphic novel memoir, Lost & Found: Based on a True Story, won the Forest of Reading’s Silver Birch Express Award in 2025, solely determined by student votes from schools and libraries across Canada. Her book was also nominated or selected for other awards and reading lists, including the American Library Association’s 2024 Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List and one of the Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books 2024. Mei’s how to draw book Manga Drawing School has been published in multiple languages worldwide.