About Colleen AF Venable
Colleen AF Venable is the author of the National Book Award Longlisted Kiss Number 8, a graphic novel co-created with Ellen T. Crenshaw. Her other books include the Katie the Catsitter series with Stephanie Yue, Mervin the Sloth is About to Do the Best Thing in The World with Ruth Chan, The Oboe Goes Boom Boom Boom with Lian Cho, and the Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye series, also with Stephanie Yue and nominated for the Best Publication for Kids Eisner. Previously Colleen was the sole designer for hundreds of First Second Books, worked as a Creative Director for Workman and Macmillan, and the Director for Epic! Kids.
Now she writes full-time and splits. her time between North Adams, MA and Brooklyn, NY.
Pronouns: She/Her/They
Repped by the wonderful Holly Root at Root Literary.
OTHER FUN FACTS!
-I have two litter-trained rabbits. (One thinks it is a dog, the other thinks it is a cat.)
-I have a giant connect-the-dots tattoo of an invisible giraffe
-I have a cool rock you can see stuck in my knee from a slip-and-slide related incident.
-I have a bad habit of improvising funny lyrics over normal songs.
-If you invent a holiday eventually the world will catch on! Proud co-creator of Lumberjack Day (lumberjackday.net OR lumberjackdaydotcomwastaken.com), created with my friend Marianne Ways and celebrated every September 26.
-The AF stands for Ann Felicity my two middle names, though shhhh don’t tell. I usually make people guess for a while first. There’s a long story why I have two middle names and an even longer story about why there’s no punctuation between the two, but I’ll leave that part up to your imagination.
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