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About

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Picture Books 

My illustrations combine pen and ink drawing, watercolor, pastel, and monotype printing, along with rare art papers and translucent vellum in a rainbow array of colors. ​

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THE BEAUTIFUL FIRE tells the story of a fire that comes to life in a fireplace on a cold winter morning.  

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DOWN THE STAIRS follows a boy who wakes up feeling bad and goes down to his family’s basement (and down, and down, and down).        

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SUSAN SLIPPER, the first of a series, is a modern fairy tale about an adopted girl named Susan. She has a closet full of slippers—each with a different  magical power. 

When I'm not drawing ...

I’m a graduate student in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, studying ancient epics and modern theories of dreaming. 

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I’ve freelanced in digital film production, researched medieval illuminated manuscripts as an undergrad at Yale, and written audio guides for art exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA.

© 2021 by Emma Lunbeck

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