photo: Jenna Maurice
Doug Salati is the creator of the picture book Hot Dog, recipient of the 2023 Randolph Caldecott Medal and Ezra Jack Keats Award, and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and the New York Public Library. The first book he illustrated was In a Small Kingdom by Tomie dePaola, and his second, Lawrence in the Fall by Matthew Farina, was an Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award Honoree, a Society of Illustrators Original Art Show selection and Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection. Doug graduated from the MFA Illustration As Visual Essay Program at the School of Visual Arts in 2014. He was a 2015 Sendak Fellow. He lives and works in New York City.
Doug is represented by Erica Rand Silverman at Stimola Literary Studio.
CONTACT: doug(at)dougsalati.com