Kasia Fryza (Katarzyna Księżopolska) is an illustrator from Warsaw. She attended a visual arts high school in Warsaw before graduating from the Academy of Art in Łódź with a diploma in Product Design. She started her career in advertising but soon realised she wanted to dedicate her life to illustration, which had been a lifelong dream. She is always searching for new ways to push herself, playing with graphics and illustration, she is usually surrounded by pictures, papers, clay, gypsum, pencils, paints and fine felt pens. She loves drawing and travelling through Europe with her husband, daughter and dog in their old van.
Matt Schu is a Portland, Oregon–based artist and children’s book illustrator whose work includes Cut!, My Cat Does Ballet, the Cosmic Collisions series, and more with HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Candlewick, and MIT Press. He studied art at the University of Oregon and worked as a graphic designer before turning to illustration. His paintings and drawings have been shown at Nucleus galleries, and he was awarded the Regional Arts & Culture Council Catalyst grant.
Diana Marciano has an education in Publishing and Journalism and Modern Philology. She is the author of several works ranging from essays to comics. Diana works as an editor and copywriter for various publishing houses, and occasionally forays into journalism. She has a strong interest in film adaptations of novels and plays.
Dávid Pogran is an illustrator and designer from Poprad, Slovakia, he is passionate about bringing stories to life through art. Inspired by nature, music and dreams, his work explores the harmony between reality and the surreal – with flowers often stealing his attention.
Michelle Beech is an illustrator and author from Devon, UK. She enjoys inventing stories from her imagination and experiences. Living in South West England means that she is never far from woodland, moorland and coastline. This close relationship with nature strongly influences her work, which is often inspired by the magic and beauty of the natural world. She loves to create enchanting characters and dreamlike settings through her watercolour illustrations. Michelle studied Illustration BA (Hons) at Falmouth University and MA Illustration at Plymouth University.
Jean-Marc Mathis, known as MATHIS, is a French comic book author, illustrator and children’s author. Initially a draftsman in the construction and public works sector, and later a sailor, Jean-Marc Mathis eventually attended the École de l’Image in Épinal and then the Beaux-Arts in Nancy. Today, he devotes himself primarily to children’s books. He is notably the author of Le Roman de Renart, the Boris series and the wordless Coco comics. He lives in Nantes, France.
Yingting Chen graduated from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A science writer, editor, and translator, Yingting is very passionate about nature and keen on promoting awareness of nature education. She has authored several non-fictions on plants and curated a multiple of educational events for curious young minds.
Frances Stickley is a former primary school teacher and trained literacy specialist. She has written several picture books for children that have been published by Walker, Andersen, Nosy Crow, Magic Cat and Simon & Schuster. She lives in Nottinghamshire with her family. When she is not writing you will find her playing dragons in the forest with her daughters
Emily Hamilton is an artist & illustrator based on the North Devon coast in the UK. She works from her studio at home and likes fine black pens, ocean dips and a good mug for tea. When she is drawing she loves nothing more than watercolours, gouache, pencils and ink, usually brought together with a flurry of photoshop. When she’s not drawing she loves nothing more than her family, fresh air, vegetables and sunshine surfing. You’ll find Emily’s work in books, magazines, on cards, fabric and the occasional surfboard!
Nelly Edwards is an illustrator based in the countryside just outside of Newbury, West Berkshire. Nelly had always dreamt of being an illustrator when she was a child. Now more than 40 years’ later, she’s able to live that dream!
Nelly predominantly works in the medium of collage. She works in her tiny home studio hand printing fun colours, patterns and textures onto recycled paper that she finds here and there (like a Womble). Each newly printed piece of paper provides her imagination the opportunity to run wild and go on exciting adventures.
