Icinori Author

Icinori is an experimental design and illustration duo, made up of couple Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller. Designers, visual artists, and editors, they concoct a wide range of projects together, spanning illustration, graphic design, exhibitions, publishing, and teaching. They have published several artists’ books and children’s books, including Et Puis, which was selected as an honor book in the fiction category of the 2019 Bologna Ragazzi Awards, and have contributed art to the New York Times, Wired, and Forbes Magazine. Growing up in a French–Chinese American family, Emilie Robert Wong attended school in the French national education system before studying comparative literature and neuroscience at Harvard College. She is an associate editor at Enchanted Lion, as well as the co-translator, with Karin Snelson, of You Can’t Kill Snow White (shortlisted for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative’s Translated YA Book Prize) and At the Drop of a Cat (a Kirkus Best Book of 2023 and a NYPL Best Children’s Book of 2023).