Website: https://www.vesperillustration.com/ | Instagram: @vesperillustration

Represented by Rena Rossner

Born in Germany and raised in New York City, Vesper Stamper writes and illustrates novels, award-winning picture books and graphic novels which tell, through both words and pictures, stories of history’s rhymes and journeys through dark forests. Her debut illustrated YA novel, What the Night Sings, about the aftermath of the Holocaust through the experience of a young musician, was a National Book Award Nominee, a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, a Morris Award Finalist, Golden Kite Honor Book and Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner.

Vesper has a BFA in Illustration from Parsons and an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from School of Visual Arts, and speaks at conferences and institutions at home and abroad with the aim of cultivating a rehumanized worldview through artistic thinking. She lives with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, in the Northeast, and teaches illustration at School of Visual Arts.