Kate Milner studied illustration at Central St Martin’s School of Art and Design in London and her works have been published in magazines and shown in London galleries and national touring exhibitions. After a number of years raising her family and working as a librarian, Kate returned to illustration through a place on the MA at Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University. My name is not Refugee began as a self-driven personal project while in the last year of her degree. My name is not Refugee was inspired by Kate’s daughter beginning a career as a teacher and by Kate’s own experience as a political campaigner. The brief she set herself was to address all the complexities of the European migrant crisis for a young but inquisitive audience.
The book won a Victoria & Albert Illustration Award in 2016. The judges said, ‘Despite its grave subject matter, it is illustrated with a cheerful anarchic quality that shows Milner’s indebtedness to the great illustrators of the past including Gerald Scarfe, Ralph Steadman and Ronald Searle.’ The judges praised Kate’s pencil and ink sketch-work with post-editing and colouring in Photoshop, her ‘expressive characters’ and her ‘most delicate use of line, shape and colour palette’. In 2016 Kate established the Twitter account @ABagForKatie, inspired by the film I, Daniel Blake. The account is a campaign to provide sanitary products for women using food banks.
Moreover, the book was selected for the Klaus Flugge Picture Book Prize 2018 and a candidate for Kate Greenaway Medal 2018.

Among frogs which sing in 16 bit, monkeys that jump from one branch to another throwing mangos, and birds-of-paradise hiding among the Colombian orchids, Canizales, when he was a child, listened to the stories told by the ancient spirits of the forest, in the shade of a Guava tree or with the sound of his house creaking in the night. These stories were so exciting that when he was at school, he pretended to take notes, while really he filled the pages of his notebook with the adventures of those magical creatures. The professors gave up on him and Canizales ended up studying fine arts and fine (and bad) words. His stories were so uncontainable that they started to appear on the newspapers as comic strips, and on television as animated short films, besides being exhibited as pictures on the walls of some galleries.
The noise of his hometown Cali was so loud that Canizales decided to move to an island, on the other side of the world, so that he could concentrate and allow his characters to live in the books he created for them. It is precisely in Maiorca that the green Witch started walking until she won Canizales the Apila opera prima prize in 2016.
Bruno the frog did not want to be outdone and won the Boolino prize for Canizales, still in 2016. Today Canizales is very happy to continue writing books and he still listens to stories of the forest and the night, but not only: he also listens to the stories of the cosmetic surgery operating rooms, of the school yards, of the libraries, of the credit card advertisements. He will also listen to the stories you want to tell him, if you write to info@canizales.eu..