Katie Newell has spent more than fifteen years in a variety of creative roles. She has worked in marketing as a multi-media and web designer, while also tackling freelance design projects, from print collateral to editing and motion graphics for promotional videos.

Katie attended Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an illustration emphasis in 2002. Her illustration work is still featured in several campus buildings.

Outside of the corporate and freelance world, Katie and her husband of fourteen years keep busy raising their family, which includes a son, two daughters, and a twelve year old terrier who still thinks she’s a puppy. Coincidently, Katie’s children were the inspiration for I’d Rather Be A Dragon, her first picture book, for which she penned both the story and illustrations. Katie and her family reside just outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan.