Brooke Bourgeois

Brooke Bourgeois is a cartoonist and illustrator currently based in New York City and originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her cartooning work has been published in the New Yorker, Private Eye, The Harvard Lampoon, and The Drift. Brooke recently completed her MA in Children's Book Illustration, and her greatest hope is that her stories can make people laugh and connect with her characters' explorations of identity. PENELOPE'S BALLOONS is her debut book.