Holly Sterling

Holly is a children’s author and illustrator. She loves to work by hand using a variety of different media including watercolour, pencil and different printing processes. She graduated from the University of Sunderland with a degree in illustration and design, before going on to do a Masters at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2013, she was highly commended for the Macmillan Illustration Prize and was the winner of the Seven Stories/Frances Lincoln Illustration Competition.

Her first illustrated picture book, 15 Things NOT to do with a baby, was published in 2016, and her first author illustrated title, Hiccups, came out in 2017.