Danielle Ridolfi is an illustrator, author, and graphic designer with an MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Her debut picture book is due to be published in 2025.
She writes and illustrates picture books for children about the natural world that encourage quiet observation, discovery, and reflection. She uses collage and printmaking in her work and is interested in the ways these methods can connect readers with tangible objects, memories, and places. You can often find plants, photographs, and bits of ephemera in her work, and all of them have a story.
Danielle also teaches college courses about picture book illustration and children’s studies and often writes about visual culture. When she is not in the classroom or the studio, you can find Danielle browsing estate sales or camping in the Missouri Ozarks.
Danielle lives in St. Louis with her partner Eugene and two dogs.
Open to picture book, b&w/interior, and cover illustration work.
