Caren Loebel-Fried is an artist and author from Volcano, Hawaii. She learned the ancient art of block printing from her mother. Birds, conservation, and the natural world are the foundations for her work. Caren has created seven storybooks to date, including Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits, Lono and the Magical Land Beneath the Sea, and her latest with Cornell Lab Publishing Group, The Perfect Day for an Albatross. Her books have been recipients of the American Folklore Society's Aesop Prize for Children's Folklore and the Hawaii Book Publishers Association's Ka Palapala Pookela Awards. Her work with conservation organizations and government agencies creating iconic, educational art include the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Kilauea Point Natural History Association, and Conservation Council for Hawaii. In the Hawaiian rainforest, she lives among several native bird species, but lately seabirds have captured her imagination. Caren spent five weeks on Midway Atoll counting and researching albatrosses, and has been visiting other locations where new work is being done to help seabirds.

Caren's aim is to bring people, especially children, closer to the natural world with the hope that they will want to help care for it.