ANDREW PERRY
About the author
Andrew Perry spent the first eighteen years of his life growing up in the small town of Spencerport, New York, along the banks of the Erie Canal. By all accounts, his childhood had a normal amount of exciting episodes and troubling incidents. He was once attacked by a goose while kayaking.
At college in Oswego, Brockport and Cincinnati, his love of reading and writing led him to the decision that this might be a decent way to make a living. He was right. He teaches First Year Composition in the University Writing Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, along the banks of the Genesee River. He lives with his beloved wife Kimberly and their inexcusably adorable dog, Tipsy, in a house that was built a long time ago where they eat and drink and enjoy life considerably.
Gargle the Goose is Andrew’s first book. His fondest wish is that you fall as deeply in love with Gargle as he has.
About the illustrator
Artist Elaine Verstraete, an illustrator, teacher and musician, creates from her hilltop studio in Middlesex, NY.
A graduate of Syracuse University with a BFA from the school of Visual and Performing Arts, Elaine has been a freelance illustrator since 1987.
Her images have appeared nationally on Christmas and Easter seals for the American Lung Association, on numerous Rochester, NY event posters - including the 2014 Lilac Festival, and on packaging labels for Wegmans Markets. Elaine garnered early inspiration from painters Norman Rockwell, Andrew Wyeth and N.C Wyeth. Her figurative watercolors first attracted Children’s Book Publishers for whom she illustrated numerous historical biographies and the award-winning picture book The Star of Christmas (Winterlake Press).
Elaine has worked as an Adjunct Professor at RIT since 2002. She currently teaches Illustration at Finger Lakes Community College. She lives with her life partner, David, along with their three cats, Shogun, Django and Fila.
Visit her online at: http://www.elaineverstraete.com/