Mira Bartók is a Chicago-born artist and the author of the 2011 New York Times best-selling illustrated memoir, The Memory Palace, as well as twenty-eight arts and culture books for children. Her writing has also appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies and has been noted in The Best American Essays series. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she runs Mira’s List, a blog that helps artists find funding and residencies all over the world, and North of Radio, a multi-media collaborative.