Ariel Hsu is a dynamic illustrator for children’s books living in Taiwan. Ariel completed and MFA in Visual Development and works in both digital and traditional media. She and loves to simplify complicated things with shapes and bright colors and is inspired by musical shows,
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Chris Hsu
Chris Hsu is a traditionally trained artist and animation background painter whose credits include the animated spy comedy Archer and an upcoming Marvel animated project. His picture book work, which includes the award-winning The Boo- Boos That Changed the World and I Am Someone Else: Poems
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Bea Jackson
Bea Jackson is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Parker Looks Up. Bea attended the College for Creative Studies and is the grand prize winner and returned alumni of L. Ron Hubbard’s Illustrator of the Future Award of 2007. Bea loves telling stories through
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Maithili Joshi
Maithili Joshi is an illustrator and designer based in New York. She was born in Pune, India, and spent a brief few years of her childhood in the United Kingdom, where she was first introduced to the fascinating illustrations in children’s books. She’s been drawn to
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Sarah Jung
Sarah Jung is the author and illustrator of When Father Comes Home. She was born in Maine, grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and received a BFA in Illustration, Creative Writing and Book Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. Sarah now resides in Baltimore, Maryland,
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Ankitha Kini
Ankitha Kini is an animator, comics artist, and illustrator. Whimsy is her strong suit and her family is her muse. Stories from various cultures set off her imagination and send her flying to her drawing table. Her profession lets her stay a child forever. She
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Maribel Lechuga
Maribel Lechuga is a freelance illustrator from Madrid, Spain. She has worked for clients all over the world, such as Anaya, Edelvives, Palabra, Heinemann, Usborne, Charlesbridge or Harper Collins. Her versatility and sensitivity make her illustrations stand out, bringing poetry to her artwork, full of
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Stevie Lewis
Stevie Lewis has been living on the road for the past two years, furthering her passion for climbing, art, and the outdoors. Striving to live simply and tread lightly on the earth, she gathers inspiration from a variety of adventures, be it climbing in the high
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Loris Lora
Loris Lora (She/Her) is a first generation Latina illustrator + designer living and working in Los Angeles. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked in editorial publishing, book publishing, toy design, surface design, and has been featured in galleries across the globe. Learn more
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Kathleen Marcotte
Kathleen Marcotte is an illustrator from the suburbs of Chicago. She moved on to Baltimore, Maryland, where she earned her BFA in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and is now based in Cleveland, Ohio. Kathleen loves to create playful illustrations that
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Jess McGeachin
Jess McGeachin is a writer/illustrator/designer based in Melbourne. He loves telling stories about hidden worlds just outside our own, and hiding clues in them for small eyes to find. Drawing upon a love of natural history (and a day job at Melbourne Museum), Jess hopes
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Nicole Miles
Nicole Miles was a card designer for Hallmark for years before becoming a full-time freelancer in 2020. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, BuzzFeed, and David Fickling Books, among others. Her graphic novel Barbara was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2017.
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Letícia Moreno
Letícia Moreno is an illustrator and comic artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her artwork focuses on drawing cute, colorful, and fun black characters. When not drawing, Letícia is either playing Animal Crossing, watching Twitch streams, making some vegan recipes, or playing with her dogs, Soshi and
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Jean-Philippe Morin
Jean-Philippe Morin is a Quebec designer and animator, publishing with Vents d’Ouest, Glénat and in the weekly magazine Spirou.
Frank Morrison
Frank Morrison was born in Massachusetts and moved to New Jersey at an early age. He grew up during the early days of rap music, graffiti, and break dancing. A well-known graffiti artist and also an accomplished break-dancer, he was actually part of the Sugar
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Ari North
Ari North is a queer cartoonist who believes an entertaining story should also be full of diversity and inclusion. As a writer, an artist, and a musician, she wrote, drew, and composed the music for Always Human, a complete romance/sci-fi webcomic about two queer girls navigating
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Mirelle Ortega
Mirelle Ortega is a Mexican author/illustrator for kidlit and animation based in Los Angeles, California. She’s best known for winning the Animation! Prize at Ideatoon in 2019 with her pitch for THE HUMAN ADVENTURES OF BAY AND DOT. She was also a finalist to the
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Émilie Pépin
Émilie Pépin is a passionate illustrator whose love for picture books led her to become an illustrator and designer. After completing her studies at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal, Émilie worked for many years in the children’s video games industry as a 2-D artist and
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Nomar Perez
Nomar Perez was born on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, where he grew up in the city of Ponce, a unique city with new and Old Spanish colonial architecture and an amazing array of colors, sounds, and flavors. These aspects of his Puerto Rican
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Gina Perry
Gina Perry was always the smallest girl in her class. Reading big books and swinging super high made her feel big when she was small. Gina lives with her family in New Hampshire. Small is her debut picture book as both author and illustrator.
Zoe Persico
Zoe Persico is an illustrator with a love for everything cute, colorful, and full of whimsy. When she’s not working, she enjoys hiking, cooking, playing Dungeons & Dragons, hunting for good finds at the thrift store, and watching documentaries. She currently resides in sunny Florida with
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Parvati Pillai
Parvati Pillai is a visual and creative designer who is passionate about illustration, storytelling, and brand building. Her books include The Pig with the Runaway Tail, Mira, Royal Detective, and Bindu’s Bindis. Parvati lives in Finland and loves storytelling, traveling, gardening, and food. When she
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Micah Player
A former Creative Director of Paul Frank Industries and the co-founder and Creative Director of Lately Lily, Micah Player began his illustration career designing characters, graphics and style guides for the apparel industry. He then went on to write and illustrate the picture books Chloe,
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Max Rambaldi
The first gift Max Rambaldi remembers receiving was a yellow pencil and a stack of plain paper. She grew up in Italy, filling blank spaces with her brush strokes. She believes that the world deserves more colors and shades.
Claudia Ranucci
Claudia Ranucci graduated with a degree in graphic design and illustration at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artisitche in Urbino, Italy. Her books have been published in France, Portugal, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Brazil. She currently lives in Madrid.