Gabi Swiatkowska

Gabi Swiatkowska (born 1970) is a Polish-born artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator.

She has shown up twice on the ALA Notable Book Award list.

One of the books that she illustrated, My Name Is Yoon, won the Ezra Jack Keats Award[1] and is on the New York Public Library's list of 100 Great Children's Books[2] Swiatkowska was born in Tychy, Poland.

[3] She is the illustrator of fifteen children's books, including A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things by the poet C. K. Williams,[4] and the author and illustrator of one, Queen on Wednesday.

She frequently exhibits her paintings and sculptures throughout France,[8][9] and she was also singer, songwriter and upright bass player in the acoustic string band quartet Tildon Krautz.