Marietta Apollonio
Publications
About Marietta
Marietta Apollonio is the author-illustrator of JACK THE LIBRARY CAT (Albert Whitman, 2023) and WOMBAT AND THE FAMILY TREE (Tommy Nelson/HarperCollins, 2024). She grew up making mud pies, reading comic books, and playing in the woods of the Hudson Valley region of New York.
She received her BFA in illustration from The Art Institute of Boston (now Lesley University College of Art and Design), where she spent a considerable amount of time sketching at the Museum of Fine Arts, writing random essays in her notebook, and searching for the best cannoli. Her illustrations include multiple mediums such as watercolor, color pencil, graphite, ink, and digital.
Marietta spends her time illustrating and writing for picture books, working with a weekly writers’ group, mentoring, making mud pies with her son, horseback riding, reading, and exploring the woods of Central Massachusetts with her family. Marietta is a winner of the 2019 SCBWI Memorial Scholarship for Illustration, 2021 PB Party Finalist, 2022 PB Rising Stars Mentor, and a 2022 faculty member for the Big Sur/Cape Cod Children’s Writers Workshop. She is represented by the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.