Thorina Rose is a San Francisco based artist and educator, whose work encompasses books, product design, and fine arts. Rose is on the faculty at the California College of the Arts. She is the author and illustrator of a graphic novel titled “The Heartbreak Diet” published by Chronicle Books in 2008. Rose was a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA award in 2004, and has exhibited her art in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, in the UK and in Italy.