Thea Lu is a picturebook maker and illustrator from China. Her work is poetic, whimsical, and gently humorous. She sees picturebook as a compact vessel of ideas— a form that
lets her play with storytelling, book structure, and design all at once. Her published works include Here & There, Minuscules Mandibules, Dive Dive into the Night Sea, Beasts Dwelling in the Sound, etc. Beyond picturebooks, she also works as a designer with a special interest in kids' projects.

In recent years, she appears mostly in Augsburg, Germany and Shanghai.