Session A
Preferred Pronouns: she/her
Art Director: Sourcebooks
Bio:
Celeste Knudsen is a Senior Art Director for Stonefruit Studio, an imprint of Sourcebooks. Previously, she worked at HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Celeste has designed and art directed picture books, middle grade novels, and graphic novels. Some titles she has worked on include the graphic novel adaptation of The Circuit, the illustrated novella-in-verse The One Thing You’d Save, and recent Caldecott Honor Up, Up, Ever Up!
She loves lyrical and reflective stories, but also the uproariously fun and funny. Her childhood favorite picture book is the classic Who Needs Donuts?
Find her online at celesteknudsen.com and on social media @ckrisply.
What I'm Looking For:
Contemporary slice of life, humor, memorable character-driven storytelling, inventive visual structures or formats. For illustration style, looking for strong character designs and sense of environment, with traditional media or echo of traditional media textures. I’d prefer to critique illustrator portfolios, with a focus on picture books and graphic novels, but could also do chapter books and middle grade.