Wendy MacNaughton est une illustratrice et journaliste graphique à succès du NYT basée à San Francisco. Ses livres incluent Meanwhile in San Francisco, The City in its Own Words (Chronicle), The Gutsy Girl (Bloomsbury), SALT FAT ACID HEAT (Simon & Schuster), Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology (Bloomsbury), Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them (Bloomsbury), Knives & Ink: Chefs et The Stories Behind Their Tattoos (Bloomsbury), The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), et le prochain Leave Me Alone with the Recipes, The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles (Bloomsbury). Wendy est chroniqueuse en dernière page pour le California Sunday Magazine et cofondatrice de Women Who Draw.
Avant tout cela, elle a étudié l’art et le travail social, a travaillé comme rédactrice publicitaire, directrice de campagne pour des organismes à but non lucratif, libraire dans une librairie d’occasion et conseillère sur une ligne d’assistance téléphonique sur le suicide. Elle a également créé la campagne nationale pour les premières élections démocratiques au Rwanda, du matériel d’éducation sanitaire pour les tribus nomades dans le nord du Kenya et un court métrage dans l’est du Congo. Elle vit à Potrero Hill avec son partenaire (et collaborateur fréquent) l’écrivain Caroline Paul, deux chats et un chien.
Wendy MacNaughton is a NYT best-selling illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her books include Meanwhile in San Francisco, The City in its Own Words (Chronicle), The Gutsy Girl (Bloomsbury), SALT FAT ACID HEAT (Simon & Schuster), Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology (Bloomsbury), Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them (Bloomsbury), Knives & Ink: Chefs and The Stories Behind Their Tattoos (Bloomsbury), The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt),The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the forthcoming Leave Me Alone with the Recipes, The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles (Bloomsbury). Wendy is the back page columnist for California Sunday Magazine, and co-founder of Women Who Draw.
Before all that stuff, she studied art and social work, worked as a copywriter in advertising, a campaign director for non-profits, a bookseller in a used bookstore, and a counselor on a suicide hotline. She also created the national campaign for the first democratic elections in Rwanda, health education materials for nomadic tribes in Northern Kenya, and a short film in Eastern Congo. She lives in Potrero Hill with her partner (and frequent collaborator) the writer Caroline Paul, two cats and a dog.