Amy June Bates is a freelance illustrator with Shannon and Associates. She has worker with Harper Collins, Farrer Strauss And Giroux, Hyperion Books for Children and Barnes and Noble among others. Amy grew up in Utah and graduated from Brigham Young University in Illustration. While in Utah, she worked for the Waterford Institute doing educational illustration. During her time with Waterford Amy illustrated over twenty books and learned all about this sort of thing.

Most importantly, she gets to draw which makes her happy. Amy now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband Alex and their ambidexterous son Evan.

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