Elina Ellis

Elina Ellis was born and grew up in Ukraine, but now lives and works in the UK. She loves drawing pictures and imagining stories. Elina has recently graduated from the MA in Children's Book Illustration in Anglia Ruskin University. She works with children’s books publishers all over the world. Elina has won a few international illustration awards, including the “Macmillan Prize” for the book The Truth About Old People and the “Beginning Middle and End” competition organised by the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. In 2018, she won the Golden Pinwheel Grand Award (International) given by the Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair.

Elina draws both digitally and using traditional media. She creates her own books and illustrates books for others. There is no greater reward for her than to know that her stories and drawings make people smile.