Katrin Wiehle

Katrin Wiehle likes tea, pencils and foxes. She was born in 1982 in Hannover and studied communication design in Kiel. A Fulbright scholarship brought her to the United States in 2008, where she has lived since with her husband, son Oskar (age 2) and cat. She has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2009 and received the Talented Young Artist’s Prize from the German Academy for Children’s and Youth Literature in 2011 for her picture book debut, Professor Pfeffers tierisches Abenteuer. Additionally, her nature book, Mein kleiner Wald / My Little Forest was awarded most beautiful book by Stiftung Buchkunst in Germany.