Aidana WillowRaven, mother of three, was trained in Fine Art, Studio Design and 2D Animation at Norfolk State University and Old Dominion University. In her freshman year, her art placed second in a nation-wide college competition hosted by the Stockley Gardens Fall Arts Festival. First place went to a sixth year grad student.

She started designing book covers and illustrating professionally in 2007, and her first published work was a children’s book. It won The Author’s Lounge’s Reader’s Choice Best Children’s Cover Illustration for May 2008.

Her portfolio of covers and illustrations for books has grown since to include more children’s books and book cover designs for novels. It now contains over forty finished published works.

Her company, WillowRaven Illustration & Design Plus, has grown to include not only children’s book covers and illustrations, but also novel dust jackets, paperback covers, book layout, author/series logo design/identity, and pre-submission manuscript editing services.

Thus far, she has either designed covers, illustrated books, or negotiated contacts with several publishers, magazines and many individual authors. She has also had several articles published about art, illustration and design.

Anyone interested in her work can view samples on her website: http://WillowRaven.weebly.com