Ken Condon's maternal grandparents crossed the border from Canada in the early twentieth century, settling in New England and raising the family's next generation as U.S. citizens. He provided the artwork for Sky Scrape/City Scape: Poems of City Life, selected by Jane Yolen, and When a City Leans Against the Sky, poems by Allan A. De Fina, both published by Wordsong. He lives in Ashland, Massachusetts.