Lindsey Manwell Wins Second Annual Golden Gate Portfolio Award

Lindsey Manwell won the Golden Gate Portfolio Prize at Asilomar 2011. Judged by David Weisner, Caldecott winning author-illustrator, Katherine Jacobs, Associate Editor at Roaring Brook and Namratha Tripathi, Executive Editor at Atheneum, the prize recognizes the most outstanding portfolio brought to the SCBWI conference held in February.

Since winning the award, Lindsey has joined with Adams Literary and has a book deal in the works.

Lindsey is a fifth generation Californian. Her family is from a small town called Maryseville. She earned her  Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and her Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Art University. When Lindsey is not illustrating or writing for children, she works on realist oil paintings.

She’s this year’s Artist Laureate for litworld.org, where her illustrations have reached children across the world who are learning to read. She believes deeply in LitWorld’s philosophy that “words change worlds” and her hope is to use artistry to change worlds, however small those changes or worlds might be.

Currently she lives in San Francisco with her husband, Lane, who she thinks is pretty much the bee’s knees.