Atlas of Mythical Journeys

Emily Hawkins is a full-time author, formerly a children’s book editor. Her work has been featured on the New York Times bestseller list ( Oceanology, 2009) as well as winning the Children’s Travel Book of the Year Award (Atlas of Animal Adventures, 2016). Along with her background in children’s non-fiction Emily has a strong interest in myth, folklore and storytelling, and has written several titles in the Lost Atlases and Spin to Survive series (Wide Eyed Editions). In 2020 she wrote A Natural History of Fairies, which has been translated into twelve languages, selling more than 100,000 copies worldwide.

Iryna Dobrovetska is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine, who places her work within the space of magical realism, depicting beauty over warzone terrors. Deeply interested in Ukrainian customs and rituals, she feels that now, when the war is waged to destroy and deny Ukrainians their own ethnicity, language and sovereignty, it is more important than ever to preserve and share her country’s culture with the world.