Author Biography

Dorothy Van Kirk is the author of Dusty the Christmas Star, published in 2012 and illustrated by her granddaughters in Australia; The Duck Showed Up was published in 2021.Dorothy was born in the Bronx and, as a child, she knew that she wanted to write children's stories. Lurk the Lavender Leopard was written during the time that Dorothy and her husband were raising their three children, Dorothy was finishing her degree at Colorado State University and starting a new career in the bio-tech industry. She graduated from CSU with her B.A. in French, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude. Dorothy took advantage of her many trips to and from Australia to begin and to create some of her rhyming stories. She now resides in Colorado, still writing children's stories and tutoring French. Lurk the Lavender Leopard is the second children's book that she has illustrated, The Duck Showed Up being the first.Trish Muscarello graduated from Valparaiso University and the University of Illinois with a degree in Medical Arts. She continued in the field of Medical Illustration, completing an Atlas of Oral Surgery as well as anatomical exhibits for juried trials.While raising her four children, she continued teaching art enrichment classes in the elementary schools. A love of the arts, architecture and painting have always been her life-long passions.Trish currently spends her winters in Arizona and summers in Illinois.

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