About Anne
Anne Ylvisaker (pronounced ILL-vi-soccer) is an artist and author.
Anne has participated in various group art shows, and in 2019 had a solo show of paintings and poems called Surprised by Delight. Her current work explores her matriarchal family tree through an installation of a fictional place called Lánsdottir. Lánsdottir is also the subject of a forthcoming animated short film and a documentary about friendship and art.
Anne is the author of the middle grade novel ONE ALLEY SUMMER (Marble Press, 2024), the picture book IAMASAURUS (Cameron Kids 2022), as well as many award winning books for young readers, including five middle grade novels with Candlewick Press, a board book, and nineteen books of non-fiction for young readers. In 2005 Anne was awarded the McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Children’s Literature. She has a master’s degree in education.
Anne grew up near the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Until 2006, she spent her adult life just across the river in Saint Paul, teaching and writing. After four years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Anne moved to Monterey, California where she lives with her husband Dan and very good dog Buster.