About

As a child, Emilie couldn’t decide whether she wanted to be a musician, a zookeeper, a secret agent, or a Professional Adventurer. She still hasn’t decided. Perhaps she will be all four. In the meantime, she makes stories involving those things. She enjoys any illustration with adventure, animals, and humor, especially in picture books and illustrated fiction.

She completed her MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art in the United Kingdom and was recently shortlisted for the 2021 World Illustration Awards. She was also Highly Commended in the 2021 Macmillan Prize for Illustration.

She grew up in Kentucky, drawing mostly nonexistent creatures and worlds in a house which threatened to collapse beneath the weight of her ever-expanding library. In her spare time she will most likely be found attempting to befriend local wildlife, loudly pounding the Star Trek theme song on the piano, or writing bio pages about herself in the third person.