Sarah McIntyre

1975 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  United States of America
occupation:  children's writerwriter

Sarah McIntyre is a British-American illustrator and writer of children's books and comics. She graduated in 1999 from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Russian and a minor degree in History of Art and earned her Master's Degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2007. She works from a studio in Bovey Tracey, Devon and lives with her husband, Stuart. McIntyre was awarded the Sheffield Children's Book award for Best Picture Book and Overall Winner for her illustrations in the book Morris the Mankiest Monster in 2010, which also won the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2010. Her book Oliver and the Seawigs with Philip Reeve won the UKLA Book Award in 2015 in the age 7–11 category and their Pugs of the Frozen North won the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award in 2016. She also won the Leeds Graphic Novel Award 2011 for Vern and Lettuce, which ran originally as a weekly comic strip in The DFC and in The Guardian newspaper. Her comic strip Shark & Unicorn ran for three years in The Funday Times section of The Sunday Times newspaper.Her projects include designing Monsterville at Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford, London and participation in its online StoryCloud project. She curated The Comics Big-Top of Awesome at the 2012 Pop Up Festival in London. In 2015 she began spearheading the #Pictures Mean Business campaign, demanding greater prominence and credit for book illustrators. For her campaign efforts, The Bookseller magazine listed her as one of their 2016 Rising Stars. She is represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents in London. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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