Lauren Stringer

LAUREN STRINGER creates paintings, drawings, and books in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and two cats. Her first illustrated picture book, Mud, won an IRA Children’s Choice Award, Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year Award and was declared a "Flying Starts" by Publisher's Weekly. Since Mud, Lauren has written and illustrated many celebrated picture books. Her book When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky received the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers and named a Booklist's Top Ten Art Books and ALA Notable Book. Stringer was recently awarded a second McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, for her manuscript, An Abundance of Light: The Story of Matisse in Morocco. Her newest book, The Dark Was Done will be published by Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster in Fall 2022.