Anna Jane Hays is an author and editor who worked for the Children's Television Workshop for 29 years, notably serving as Vice President/Editor-in-Chief of Book Publishing. During this time, she wrote such Sesame Street books as Cookie See! Cookie Do!, and See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil and edited I'll Miss You, Mr. Hooper. In 2003, she wrote the book So Big! She spent 29 years with the company, before moving back to New Mexico, becoming the editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper. She has also written children's books of her own.