林廉恩
Lin Lian-En (林廉恩), born and raised in Taiwan. She worked as a character and art designer for an animation studio for over a year and has been drawing ever since leaving the studio. She specializes in creating with acrylic, water soluble crayons, and collages and likes drawing cities, monsters and plants. Her works are mostly about her current feelings and her life experiences. She won the American 3x3 Contemporary Award in 2014, Bologna Children Illustration Award in 2015 and 2018. She has also won the Bologna Ragazzi Award – Fiction Award for her picture book Home in 2021, becoming the first Taiwanese work to win the award. The picture book went on to win multiple domestic and international book awards, including the 2021 Golden Tripod Award and the 2021 TiBE Book Prize.