Poetry Illustration Services

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Karen

Karen

New York, United States

Hello! I'm an award-winning illustrator and Grammy® nominated designer with 20+ years in the publishing, arts and entertainment worlds.


Work experience:

  • Greenberg Kingsley/NYC
  • Karen Greenberg

Services: Design Cover Design Illustration Typography Book Interior Design

Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Chick Lit, Women's Fiction, Design, Non-Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Photography, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Picture Books, Children's, Contemporary Fiction

Tess

Tess

New York, NY, USA

I help authors stand out with bold colors and delightful illustrations.


Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Services: Design Cover Design Illustration

Genres: Children's, Fiction, Poetry, Short Story, Health & Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Travel, Comics & Graphic Novels, Inspirational

Peter

Peter

Milledgeville, GA, USA

I'm an award-winning designer specializing in book covers, with Simon & Schuster, The New Yorker, Forbes, and Gourmet among clients.


Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Services: Design Cover Design Illustration

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Self-Help & Self-Improvement

Brianna

Brianna

New York, United States

I'm a freelance book cover designer and illustrator with nearly a decade of in-house experience at a top publishing house.


Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Services: Design Cover Design Illustration Typography Book Interior Design Production Management

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Travel, Poetry, Historical Fiction, Music, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Sports & Outdoors, Thriller & Suspense

Liz

Liz

Boston, MA, USA

I'm a freelance illustrator in children's book and game publishing. I love working on empathetic and dynamic stories and characters.


Work experience:

  • Graphic Artists Guild
  • Self-employed
  • BurnPhase

Services: Design Illustration

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Middle Grade, Gaming & LitRPG, Fantasy, Poetry

Camila

Camila

San Francisco, CA, USA

Book nerd, professional designer and emerging illustrator. Ready to breathe more life into your tales?


Work experience:

  • SuperDataScience
  • Human Made
  • Self-employed

Services: Design Illustration

Genres: Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Picture Books, Magical Realism, Literary Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Coming of Age, Poetry, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Non-Fiction, Sex & Relationships

Stevie

Stevie

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Prologue: Young Stevie sketched away in the margins of her homework, secretly dreaming of one day being a professional artist.


Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Services: Design Illustration Typography

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade Fantasy, Children's, Poetry, Travel, Non-Fiction, Nature

Zoe

Zoe

Belmont, NC, USA

I specialize in illustration for children's picture books, chapter books, book cover illustration, and character design.


Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Services: Design Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Cultural & Ethnic, Middle Grade, Poetry

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Hire the best poetry book illustrators


If you're interested in bringing your poetry to life with a visual representation, you might want to hire a poetry book illustrator to add that extra pep to your anthology of verse. Of course, most poets might argue that their job is to paint a vivid picture using just words — but some (more adventurous) writers might want to see what an artist can bring to the table.


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