Stephanie Anderson lives and works in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, as an illustrator and painter. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she has illustrated three children’s books: Weaving the Rainbow by George Ella Lyon, sleepy boy by Polly Kanevsky, and You and Me and Home Sweet Home by George Ella Lyon, all published by Simon & Schuster. Both collaborations with Lyon have garnered awards for Anderson, the most recent being the 2010 Jane Addams Peace Honor for You and Me and Home Sweet Home. Her work has appeared in Orion Magazine, American Artist Watercolor Magazine, and Berkshire Magazine. As a watercolor painter, Anderson has been fascinated by the still life. Over the years, her work has ranged from minimal, softly defined compositions of a few objects to elaborate and crisp arrangements of vegetables, random props, and old photographs—all painted from life. Recently, she has incorporated elements of collage, deconstructing her paintings and reassembling the pieces into new combinations using an X-Acto knife, paint, glue, and hand-marbled paper. Anderson is currently working on a series of drawings on clayboard, as well as paintings and collages of imagined creatures in their respective environments.