​Janejira who also sometimes goes by Herschel is a genderfluid Thai-American LGBTQIA+ romance author, comic artist, filmmaker, costume designer, and also loves to dance. Their friends call them the Jane of all trades. They graduated from the Seattle Film Institute in 2019 and simultaneously launched their art business Peachful Creations a few years later and popped up at craft fairs and anime conventions all across the Pacific Northwest.

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Janejira has been writing books since middle school but is restarting their publishing career and launching Valiant Butterfly Books in the Winter of 2027. For as long as they could remember they loved crafting stories and drawing manga. The journey started when they found a copy of Natsuki Takeya's Fruits Basket and repeatedly had to tell the other kids in their elementary class it's not a "backwards book" it's manga. Feeling out of place in a heteronormative and neurotypical society they began crafting their own worlds where the overwhelming horrors of everyday mundanity weren't so terrifying and feelings that couldn't be put into words actually made sense. 

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Drawing and writing became not only a therapeutic coping mechanism for finding their place across different spectrums but a way to translate their feelings about how they wish the world could be. As they grew into a tired adult their passion for activism and fighting stigmas around mental health and neurodiversity became the center of inspiration for their bigger projects.