Jarrett Melendez is a GLAAD Media Award- and Eisner Award-nominated comic and graphic novel writer, cookbook author, and food journalist who has written countless articles and developed hundreds of original recipes that have appeared on Kitchn, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Saveur, and Food52. He's written a total of ten cookbooks to date, including My Pokemon Baking Book, RuneScape- The Official Cookbook, Percy Jackson and the Olympians- The Official Cookbook, The Official Wednesday Cookbook, The Official Borderlands Cookbook, The White Lotus- The Official Cookbook, Persona- The Official Cookbook, The Official SpongeBob SquarePants Cookbook, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians- The Cookbook. Jarrett grew up on the mean, deer-infested streets of Bucksport, Maine, but currently resides in Watertown, Massachusetts, with his fiance Theo, a collection of Monokuro Boo plush pigs, and a carefully curated library of more than 100 cans of tinned fish.