Briony Stewart grew up in North Perth and has a double degree in fine art and creative writing.
Briony’s first book, Kumiko and the Dragon was published by U.Q.P soon after she graduated and won the 2007 Aurealis Award for Children's Short Fiction. Since then, Briony has had many additional children's books published, two of which completed the Kumiko trilogy. She has also received an arts grant for artists under 25 to develop as a children's author and illustrator with the May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust in Melbourne, has presented at libraries and festivals and has held three successful exhibitions of her illustrated work. Briony still lives, paints and writes in Perth and proofreads aloud to a black and white rabbit named Winston.
We met Briony in her home studio and enjoyed a long chat with the sun streaming in through her garden window.