Mackenzie Joy is a lot of things. A lifelong bookworm, a prolific doodler, a proud wallflower, and an excellent listener. Growing up in the East Bay Area in Northern California, Mackenzie spent her time drawing, reading, playing sports, and being outdoors. Her mission in life is to bring people together and to show that you can be enough simply by being yourself. She now lives on a little hill near Berkeley, where she loves to laugh, read stories aloud at bedtime, and type her smiley faces backwards (: She is the creator of Wallflowers (Clarion Books), an ode to quiet and introverted children, and cocreator of One Tiny Treefrog: A Countdown to Survival (Candlewick Press), the first of three non-fiction pictures books with her best friend and adventure buddy for life, Tony Piedra. She cannot wait to keep listening to and telling stories.
Open to picture book and cover illustration work.
