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Philip Brooker is an artist, illustrator, furniture maker, and filmmaker. His fine art has been exhibited in the US and Europe and is included in several collections. Until 2007 he was the art director and an illustrator for The Miami Herald, where he worked for 23 very long years. He is currently hard at work on several projects, including launching a publishing collaboration with Bordas Studio (Paris) and filming a documentary about April Ashley, one of the first and most notorious Brits to have a sex change operation.

His illustrations have been published widely in magazines, books, and ad campaigns. Clients include Businessweek, Time Warner, Sports Illustrated, The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, HOME Miami, The New York Times, TV Guide, House and Garden, Penthouse Magazine, The Washington Post, Bantam Books, L.A. Magazine, CNN, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Architectural Digest. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Print magazine award, Society of Newspaper Design (silver medal for best illustration portfolio), Communication Arts, and American Illustration. For more information about Philip, see his websites for illustration at www.anicecupoft.com and for fine art at www.philipbrooker.com.

 

Andrea Gollin is a writer and editor whose nonfiction work has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, Salon.com, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, HOME Miami, and Ocean Drive Magazine. Other clients include Scholastic Inc., Expedia, Humana, Miami Design Preservation League, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the Bass Museum. She previously ran the publication programs at The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum and for the Knight Program at the University of Miami School of Architecture; she currently freelances for both institutions and is program director for Targum Shlishi Foundation. She has been an editor for several publications, including The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, and has edited approximately 15 books. She is also a fiction writer and her short stories have been published in several literary journals including The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, The Texas Review, and Blue Mesa Review. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the graduate writing program at the University of Virginia.