About the authors of An Act of Imagination: Scott Bourne and Todd Bratrud met in 1998. Scott was skateboarding professionally and Todd had just become the art director at Consolidated Skateboards, one of the companies who sponsored Scott. A friendship quickly sparked over ideas and illustrations. Since then, Todd has created graphics for nearly every major skateboard company and several shoes in collaboration with Nike. He calls Grand Forks home, working from his studio and running an independent skateboard brand called SEND HELP. Scott began his writing career with a monthly column in Slap skateboard magazine. Since then, he has published a novel, a book of short stories, several journals and a trilogy of poems. His poetry has been put to score by American composer Shinji Eshima, which premiered at San Francisco Opera Lab in April of 2016. Scott now lives in Paris. The short poems collected in the book are inspired by his two children.
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