Speaker Biographies

Roxie Munro

Roxie is the acclaimed author/illustrator of more than 30 books for children, including the new Inside-Outside Dinosaurs; Go!Go!Go!; Mazeways: A to Z; Mazescapes; Amazement Park; The Inside-Outside Books of New York City (New York Times Best Illustrated Award), Washington DC, Texas, London, Paris and Libraries; Doors; Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses; The Great Bridge-Building Contest; Ranch; Wild West Trail Ride Maze; Circus; and Rodeo.

Munro has worked as an artist all of her life, at one point freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Fourteen of her paintings have appeared as covers of The New Yorker magazine. She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the U.S. in galleries and museums. She studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), received a B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship. She lectures in museums, schools, conventions, and teaches in the Paint in Italy program.

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