Jane Solomon is a lexicographer and emoji expert based in Oakland, California. She spends her days working on various projects related to words and emoji. She's currently the Senior Emoji Lexicographer at Emojipedia and on the Word Panel of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Jane was at Dictionary.com for seven years, and she's also worked for Macmillan, Oxford, Cambridge, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Thinkmap, and K Dictionaries. She's on the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, the group that decides what new emoji will pop up on our devices. Her first children's book *The Dictionary of Difficult Words* was published in spring 2019 with Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of Quarto Kids. Twitter: @janesolomon Blog: lexicalitems.com
