Chris Ellison | Illustrator Biography
Chris Ellison, after receiving his formal art training at the Harris School of Art in Franklin, Tennessee, and then later at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia, has illustrated both children's and adult historical fiction for the past 14 years. His first children's book, King of the Stable, was awarded the Gold Medallion from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in 1999. Let Them Play is his first picture book with Sleeping Bear Press. Though a native of Louisiana, Chris currently resides in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, along with wife Lesley and young son Henry.
Illustrator Residence
- Hattiesburg, MS