Ashley Belote is the author/illustrator of WITCH & WOMBAT (PRH 2023), SHEEPWRECKED (PRH 2024), DON'T WASH WINSTON (Feiwel & Friends 2024), LISTEN UP, LOUELLA, THE ME TREE, and A PARTRIDGE IN THE WE TREE. 

 

She is also the illustrator FRANKENSLIME and VALENSLIME by Joy Keller (Feiwel & Friends, 2021).

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She studied traditional animation under the direction of Don Bluth. Ashley is a West Virginia native, and earned her BA from Alderson Broaddus University. She earned her MA in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky. Her graduate study included a children’s literature and illustration course, The Whole Book Approach, through Simmons College at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She also serves as the Illustrator Coordinator for the Carolinas chapter of SCBWI. Ashley is represented by Moe Ferrara of BookEnds Literary Agency.