Julie Paschkis

Julie Paschkis is a painter, textile designer, author, and award-winning illustrator of children’s books. Born in Pennsylvania, she studied at Cornell University and the School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she earned a BFA. She also taught art to children before beginning full-time work in painting and illustration in 1991.

Paschkis has illustrated more than 30 books, including Twist: Yoga Poems by Janet Wong, Vivid: Poems and Notes About Color, Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams, and Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella. She lives in Seattle, where she continues to create paintings, illustrations, fabric designs, and quilts.