Leanne Shapton is the cofounder of J&L Books, a not-for-profit imprint specializing in art and photography books. She has contributed illustrations to a variety of magazines and papers, worked as a designer at the New York Times, and writes a travel column for Elle magazine. Her most recent book is Was She Pretty?, a collection of stories and drawings about jealousy.

• November/December 2007: The Modern Lovers: Ten Contemporary Artists Who Make Images of Their Beloved
  A portfolio of ten unsentimental examples of the contemporary muse.