About Me
Two of my favorite things are books and cats.
I've drawn and written 14 books and have had 8 cats. The cats by my drawing table, left, are Mollie and Lily. Since my son and daughter like cats, I have 3 grandcats.
I am a Floridian.
I grew up in Miami, Florida. Then I married and moved all over the USA. Now I live in Florida again and watch the sun set into the Gulf of Mexico.
I studied painting at Eliot McMurrough School of Art in Indialantic, Florida, got a degree in art and art history from Florida State University, and taught illustration at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.
I have gone to Disney World in Orlando every June...
and to Miami every January for conferences because I was Illustrator Co-ordinator for the Florida Region of Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators 1/2010-8/2019. Lucky me! I made friends with artists and art directors and writers and editors and agents - even this Goofy guy.
Email me! studioshute@comcast.net