Leila [ lay la ] Rudge is an illustrator and picture book writer living on Awabakal Country [ Newcastle ] in Australia.

After completing an Illustration Degree at Bath Spa University in England, Leila headed to Australia where she illustrated her first children’s book Duck for a Day in 2009. Since then, she has written and illustrated over 15 books. Both Gary and Winston and the Indoor Cat were shortlisted in the Early Childhood categories of the CBCA awards.

Her work is a mixture of watercolor and pencil all hand rendered onto big sheets of watercolour paper ready to be scanned into picture book pages.