Before publishing her first book, Julián is a Mermaid, in 2018, Love worked as an actress in New York City for thirteen years.
She refers to her book as "her backstage baby,"[7] as she worked on it between a Jez Butterworth's The River (2014) and Julia Cho's Aubergine at Playwrights Horizons (2016).
When first starting to write Julián is a Mermaid, Love states that it "was going to be entirely wordless.. but it became clear to me as I showed early sketches of the book to people that there was some information that was missing, and without it the story wouldn't actually make sense.”[11] Now she has included some words, but has been very careful to not overwrite the book or take your focus away from the illustrations.
[9] Love has stated she is most inspired by the work of Maurice Sendak, Hillary Knight, Bill Waterson, Shel Silverstein, John Klassen, Mac Barnett, and Carson Ellis.
[14] A Bed of Stars, expected to be published April 4, 2023 by Candlewick Press,[9] is about a father who goes camping in the desert with his child.