Anke Kuhl, born in 1970, works and lives as a freelance illustrator in Frankfurt/Main. She is a member of LABOR, the artists’ studio cooperative and has already illustrated numerous picture and children’s books, which have also been awarded prizes such as the German Youth Literature Prize. Her most recent book with Beltz & Gelberg (together with Philip Waechter) was the anthology Once When the Bear Went to the Sea.