Julie Fortenberry

Julie Fortenberry has an MFA from Hunter College. Her abstract paintings have been in exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art . She illustrated Eve Bunting's Pirate Boy, and a series of Sydney Taylor Notable books by Rabbi Jamie Korngold. She is the author/ illustrator of Grandpa and Jake, Darcy's First Sleepover, Pearl Goes to Preschool, The Artist and the King, and Lily's Cat Mask which received a Kirkus starred review and was added to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. She lives in Philadelphia.