Readers are invited to peruse "a charming selection of bodies and wings, and assemble a realistic bird automaton.

"[5] She has illustrated four books, including Aviary Wonders Inc. and Grand Isle (Samworth is the author of these two), Why Fish Don't Exist by NPR science journalist Lulu Miller, and Liza Jane and the Dragon by Laura Lippman.

Samworth studied and taught painting at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, and considers Auseklis Ozols one of her mentors.

[4] She received a BFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2010 where she studied printmaking and now teaches illustration and painting.

[7] Samworth was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She played bass in the band Fire Party in the late 1980s.