Jess Hitchman started her career as an online agony aunt for teenage girls. Since then, she has been creating innovative digital experiences for entertainment brands like MTV, Nickelodeon, Radio 1, Channel 5, and Sky. As Executive Product Manager at BBC Children’s, she led the vision and strategy for some of the UK's most loved kids' apps, including the BAFTA-nominated CBBC Buzz and CBeebies Playtime Island. Jess has also created her own educational apps for preschoolers, which have been featured by Apple around the world.

Jess is the author of picture books AVA IN CODE LAND, ALL KINDS OF AWESOME (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan), IN EVERY HOUSE, ON EVERY STREET (Little Tiger), and AXOLOTL + AXOLITTLE (Sourcebooks). She also
co-writes the graphic novel series THE INFLATABLES (Scholastic US and UK) with Beth Garrod, and created the HIGH FIVE ME series of interactive board books (Happy Yak/Quarto).