Lily LaMotte is the debut author of Measuring Up which is a ALA Top Ten Best Graphic Novels for Children, Cybils Award winner, WA Book Award Finalist, and MN Maud Hart Lovelace Honor. Her book Unhappy Camper is a 2025 ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children. Her debut picture book Chloe’s Lunar New Year is a Bank Street Best.
When she isn’t writing, she cooks up new recipes, and explores new crafts. She also loves to load up the campervan for a writers retreat camping trip with her husband, her dog, and in the process of coaxing her kitten to join.
She is a graduate of Hamline’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She’s passionate about libraries and serves on the King County Library System Foundation Board. She also supported writers through her many roles on the SCBWI Western WA Advisory Board.
Lily is repped by Laura Rennert of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency for books and by Mary Pender at WME for Film and Television.
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