At a very young age María found out that there are few things in life she enjoyed as much as listening to The Beatles and drawing. When she grew up she graduated in Art History at the University of Oviedo and soon after she studied Graphic Design at the Art School of Avilés. Nowadays she still listens to The Beatles and feels fortunate to be able to do what she loves the most for a living: illustration.
Marion Lindsay grew up drawing pictures and inventing stories so it made sense that she would end up being a children’s book illustrator. She studied at Cambridge School of Art, graduating in 2010 with a master’s degree in children’s book illustration and the Egmont Best New Talent Award. She lives in Cambridge and draws all day long, in her spare time she decorates things that don’t move fast enough to get out of the way.
Love Ssega is a musician, producer and performing artist of Ugandan heritage, creating work that blurs the lines of civic engagement, understanding, activism and hope. Justice and climate activism weaves through his work. He is Associate Artist at the Southbank Centre 2024-2027. He has had work commissioned by the National Gallery, Royal Shakespeare Company, Serpentine and Whitechapel Gallery amongst others, was the Philharmonia Orchestra's Artist in Residence for 2022-23, and was a featured co-writer for the Southbank's?Imagine a Story?project, as chosen by lead author Sita Brahmachari.
Lucy Zhang is an illustrator and designer from Sydney with a background in architecture. Apart from illustration, she also works in animation and game design. Lucy loves telling stories with bright colours and bold textures. She takes inspiration from travel, nature, and everyday magic. In her free time, you can find her relaxing with a good podcast while drawing fanart of her latest obsession.
Louie Stowell was born in London and has lived there ever since, except for a short stint in Watford to study advertising. She’s worked as a copywriter, cartoonist, PR and in-house fiction writer, and was Publisher at Ladybird/Penguin Random House before writing full-time.
Her 2019 debut, The Dragon in the Library, was followed by The Monster in the Lake in 2020 and The Wizard in the Wood in 2021. Otherland, a standalone middle-grade novel, followed in 2021. The first book in her series, Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good, was an instant #3 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller.
Louise Forshaw is an illustrator (and sometimes author) living in a small town in the North East, UK. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and Animation from Newcastle College. Louise works from home in a small studio, supervised by her three noisy and very mischievous, Jack Russell Terriers.
Luke graduated with a BA in Illustration from Kingston University, and has made a living telling stories through pictures ever since. Originally working in traditional animation for TV and advertising (Picasso Pictures, MTV) he moved through web animation into interactivity and games, working for ten years as in-house Illustrator and Concept Artist at Playstation’s London Studio. He is currently a full-time Illustrator.
Lucy Semple lives and works as a children’s illustrator in Nottinghamshire. She loves to create her art digitally but sometimes dabbles in traditional media in her own free time. She can often be found curled up with a book, a cup of tea in hand and her dachshund Frankie asleep on her knee.
