You Byun

Artist/Author/Illustrator You Byun was born in Queens, New York. She grew up in US, Japan and Korea. Moved back to New York to be a visual artist, receiving her MFA from School of Visual Arts.

Her work has been recognized by various magazines, awards and competitions, including Communication Arts Magazine, Creative Quarterly, Ai-Ap, Society of Illustration LA, & Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (with winning both Grand Prize in Portfolio Award, and Tomie DePaola Award at a same time on 2010).

She is currently working on her second children's book with an international publisher Penguin Group -Nancy Paulsen Books (A division of Penguin Young Readers Group), which is scheduled to be published in 2014. Her first book Dream Friends will be published by February 2013, with the same publisher, which is available at both Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, and a lot more.

You's work is a ritual that recollects and records her memories and emotions; she places her characters in lush environments that hopefully spread joy through the world. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York and works on editorial assignments, gallery pieces, books, and stationery cards.

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> Interview with "Communication Arts" (click to view)
> Interview with "Moon Ape" (click to view)
> Awards from "SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators)"
- both the Grand Prize, & Tomie DePaola Illustrator Award (click to view) (2010)
> "Creative Quarterly" issue 18 as a winner, published on April 2010
> Blogged by