User:JKizzieHumanities/Mary Jane Begin

Mary Jane Begin is an writer, illustrator, and educator from Barrington, Rhode Island. Begin is known for her work writing books in the most-recent My Little Pony series.

Begin grew up in Amesbury and Hampton, New Hampshire. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985. In 1991, Begin became a professor of illustration there.

Begin designed the Rhode Island state ornament for the White House Christmas tree in 2008, and Begin's work has been exhibited by the Providence Art Club, Springfield Museums, the National Museum of Illustration. Begin has won the Critici Erba Prize at the Bologna Book Fair, Italy.