TRACY MCGUINESS-KELLY, UK

Tracy graduated from Salford College with a B.A in Graphic Design & Illustration in 1983. She went on to work as a freelance illustrator working with clients such as: Oxford University Press, Missoni Fashion, POPrint Cards, & City Life Magazine amongst others.

She continued her career as an illustrator by accepting a position at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City Missouri, in the U.S, and designed award winning giftwrap, greeting cards and other surface design product, as well as posters, stationery, gift bags, packaging and 3 dimensional toys.Tracy moved to New York in 1998 to pursue a freelance illustration career.Some of her clients include: Starbucks, Nickelodeon T.V, American Girl, Crate & Barrel, Unicef, Great Arrow, Time Warner, Galison Books, Chronicle Books, Porter Novelli, Fast Company, TIME Asia, Christian Science Monitor & Little Brown Publishing amongst others.

After 3 years with 'Lilla Rogers' Tracy decided to go it alone, maintaining existing clients and gaining new ones one in particular whilst renting a booth at the 'Licensing Show' in the Jacob Javits Convention center in New York City, she was 'discovered' by her soon-to-be editor, Cindy Eagan of Little Brown Publishing.

What culminated in this great connection and meeting of minds, was a 2 book contract to write and illustrate her first children's book entitled 'BAD CAT' which was published in June 2003 in the U.S, Japan & S.Korea and is listed in the United States Library of Congress.