Wendy Froud
[6][7] Froud began making her own dolls from the age of five based on her favorite stories, including "lots of fauns, satyrs, centaurs and things with wings"[8] from Greek mythology and fairy tales.[12] After graduating, Froud moved to New York City, where The Muppets art director Michael Frith attended a gallery show of her dolls and bought several as a Christmas presents for Jim Henson in 1978.[20] Froud served as a concept, character, and costume designer for the 2019 Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.[23] She is a writer of short fiction and poetry, published in two anthologies: Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (1998)[24] and Troll's-Eye View (2009).[28] She has won 4th place in the Locus Award for Best Artbook with her husband twice: for Trolls in 2013,[29] and for Brian Froud's Faeries' Tales in 2015.