Olivette Is You

Nico Tortorella is an actor, musician, and accomplished author. Nico is perhaps best known as Josh on the hit dramedy series Younger, and they starred in two seasons of AMC’s The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Nico can also be seen in AppleTV’s City on Fire, based on the New York Times bestselling book by Garth Risk Hallberg, as well as the indie drama The Mattachine Family. Nico wrote a collection of poetry, all of it is you, and a memoir, Space Between. Nico is married to longtime partner, Bethany C. Meyers, and they reside on the East Coast with their daughter. Olivette Is You is Nico’s picture book debut. Melissa Kashiwagi is an illustrator and concept artist originally from the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. After graduating with a BFA in illustration from Brigham Young University, she found her way to Los Angeles to work in children’s animation and enjoyed some time at DreamWorks and Nickelodeon. She met her husband online during the covid pandemic and moved to Mesa, Arizona, where she enjoys painting, playing fetch with her cats (they really do play fetch!), and hitting up the pickleball courts.