Jill McElmurry was born in Los Angeles, CA into a family of artists and musicians and grew up in Taos, NM. She studied art at SUNY Purchase and School of Visual Arts in New York. Before fulfilling her lifelong dream of creating picture books, Jill illustrated magazines, book covers, posters and design projects in the United States and Germany. She's had several pieces shown at the NY Society of Illustrators. When she's not working on books, she's painting the New Mexico landscape or enjoying herself with her partner and their dogs on Higglety Pigglety Farm in Albuquerque.

Books by Jill McElmurry

Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story

written by Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Jill McElmurry - Children's 5-8, Historical Fiction, Picture