In addition to illustrating books, Ashleigh is a skilled and experienced graphic designer and enjoys creating editorial illustration, playful lettering, fun motifs, and organic line work. Her inspiration comes from family, nature, and life events both mundane and altering. She uses her iPad Pro, paper collage, drawing pens, and painting in various mediums. Ashleigh’s style is defined by textured images with organic and playful lines. Her debut illustrated book, Layla’s Happiness, written by Mariahdessa Ekere Tallie, received the 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award, as well as the Writer Honor. She lives in North Carolina and teaches at Fayetteville State University.Īshleigh Corrin is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and graphic designer. Weatherford is the winner of a Ragan-Rubin Award for Literary Achievement from the North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She often writes about African American history, families and traditions, and jazz. She has written more than 40 books and has earned many awards including the NAACP Image Award, a Coretta Scott King Award, and a Caldecott. Poet and author Carole Boston Weatherford earned a BA from American University, an MA from the University of Baltimore, and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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