Devon Holzwarth author page

Devon Holzwarth biography

Devon Holzwarth is a picture book illustrator, author and painter. She earned a BFA in 2000 from the Rhode Island School of Design, focusing on screen printing and painting. She grew up in Panama surrounded by nature and her father’s art supplies.

Holzwarth is the author-illustrator of Found You and Sophie’s Stories. Sophie’s Stories won a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal Award.

Her illustration work includes Everywhere With You, The Story of a Book, Papa, Daddy, and Riley, All That Is You, A Flicker of Hope, Not Far from Here and Tía Fortuna’s New Home. Tía Fortuna’s New Home, written by Ruth Behar and illustrated by Holzwarth, was named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Holzwarth illustrated Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion, written by Shannon Stocker. She received a Schneider Family Book Award for her illustration work in Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion.