2025 Madrina Mentor
Elizabeth Lilly
Learn about your mentor:
Preferred Age Category: Picture Books Preferred Genre or Sub-Genres: Any As a mentor I love working on: Narrative structure and storytelling for illustrators--helping illustrators get a handle on writing strong stories and finding their inner confidence as a writer in addition to illustrating. Also making characters narratively and visually stronger and more interesting. And helping illustrators find a visual style that's original and unique to them. Areas of expertise/strengths as a mentor: I'm a college illustration professor so I'm pretty good at helping people refine their visual voice and push themselves to the next level with their illustrations. And I'm good at helping creators rewrite/restructure/redraw works that you might be stuck on or don't know what to do with next. Areas of weakness as a mentor: Definitely not great at querying help because I don't have any experience with querying myself. |
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ABOUT ELIZABETH...
Elizabeth Lilly (she/her) is an author, illustrator, animator and educator. Elizabeth’s work deals with the difficulty of understanding and loving yourself, and the celebration of your true self once you find it. She struggled to find her own identity growing up, but now finds pride and joy in her own identity as a lesbian, biracial Colombian Latina. She is the illustrator of four picture books, two of which she also wrote. Her books have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, been named Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Book of 2021, and have earned starred reviews as well as the Junior Library Guild Selection. When she’s not creating stories, she teaches illustration, animation and drawing as an adjunct professor and lives with her wife in Baltimore, Maryland.
www.elizabeth-lilly.com
Elizabeth Lilly (she/her) is an author, illustrator, animator and educator. Elizabeth’s work deals with the difficulty of understanding and loving yourself, and the celebration of your true self once you find it. She struggled to find her own identity growing up, but now finds pride and joy in her own identity as a lesbian, biracial Colombian Latina. She is the illustrator of four picture books, two of which she also wrote. Her books have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, been named Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Book of 2021, and have earned starred reviews as well as the Junior Library Guild Selection. When she’s not creating stories, she teaches illustration, animation and drawing as an adjunct professor and lives with her wife in Baltimore, Maryland.
www.elizabeth-lilly.com