Orange Kitty and the Mouse Parade

Elizabeth (E.M.) Gales is a children's author and illustrator living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After spending twenty years working with seniors, creating daily art, music, and dance programs, she decided to retire early to work on passion projects that had been on the back burner. She studied art at community colleges, the University of British Columbia, and The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. After almost a year in the fine arts program, life sent her in another direction. Several years later a move from BC to Nova Scotia allowed her to finally focus on her lifelong dream of becoming an author/illustrator. The Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) helped her on that journey. Along with writing and illustrating, Elizabeth loves gardening, walks by the ocean, the wind, and cold, cozy sweater weather. Her illustrations utilize pen and ink, colored ink, watercolour, and acrylic as well as digital art.