Catia Chien is a children's book illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
[1] She graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 2004.
[2] She has produced work for several publishing companies, including Random House, Penguin Books and Candlewick Press.
She has won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York for her work in The Bear and The Moon and she has also won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles for her work in Sea Serpent and Me, written by Dashka Slater.
[3] Chien has also received a Schneider Family Book Award for her ALA notable book, A Boy and a Jaguar, written by Alan Rabinowitz.