Julia Kuo

Agent: Emily van Beek
Partner | YA, middle grade, and picture books

You can find more information on Julia Kuo’s website.

Julia Kuo is a Taiwanese-American illustrator based out of Seattle. She has taught illustration courses at Columbia College Chicago and at her alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. Julia was the visual arm of Chicago’s 2017 March for Science and has had the honor of being an artist-in-residence at Banff Centre for the Arts in 2014 and in 2017. She is currently the recipient of a 2019-2021 Gray Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship at the University of Chicago.

Her recent titles include her author-illustrated titles Luminous and Let’s Do Everything and Nothing, RISE: Asian America by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, And Philip Wang, I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story by Martha Brockenborough and Grace Lin, I Dream of Popo by Livia Blackbourne, and The Sound of Silence by Katrina Goldsaito.