Kathryn Durst is a children’s book illustrator who lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her grumpy mini dachshund named Chili Dog. With a degree in animation from Sheridan College, she has worked with various animation studios, including an internship with Pixar Animation Studios. Kathryn now works full time as a children’s book illustrator, and you can find her work in Hey Grandude! and Grandude’s Green Submarine, written by Paul McCartney.
Hanneke Siemensma
Illustrator Hanneke Siemensma studied fine arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. For her work on Little Wise Wolf, Hanneke was nominated for the 2020 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. She lives in the Netherlands.
Marcus Cutler
When Marcus Cutler was a kid he liked to practice drawing by copying superhero comics. People would ask him what he was going to do for a real job when he grew up. He told them that he hadn’t decided, but he would either be the third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays or an astronaut. Well, he was absolutely terrible at baseball, and never quite learned how to pilot a space shuttle. He kept drawing though, and with all that practice he ended up being pretty good at it. So now he does that for a job!#Marcus loves drawing kids’ books. His favorite things to draw are funny and weird characters doing funny and weird things. When he’s not making art, he likes to watch movies, cook breakfast and practice kung fu.#Marcus lives in Tecumseh, Ontario, with his wife and two daughters.~Twitter: @marcuscutler~Instagram: @marcuscutlerillo
Sebastiaan Van Doninck
Sebastiaan Van Doninck is an award-winning illustrator from Belgium. His clients include Penguin Random House, Thames & Hudson and Usborne Publishing. He is the illustrator of several picture books and the winner of Belgium’s 2015 Picturale Prize for the best Flemish illustrator.
Andrea Stegmaier
Andrea Stegmaier was born in 1979 in Freiburg, Germany. When she was a kid, she wanted to become an alligator-catcher in Alaska. This lasted for a few months until her parents told her that there are no alligators in Alaska. Trying to find a new profession, she later went to university to study German, history of art and architecture. She had worked as an architect for ten years when she turned her passion for children’s books into her new career. Since 2018 she has illustrated several books for different publishers and loves every day filled with drawing and painting. Andrea lives with her two kids and her husband in Stuttgart, a busy town in the south of Germany.~Instagram: @andrea_stegmaier~Twitter: @andreastegmaier