Author-illustrator Rachel Katstaller is from tiny, tropical El Salvador. She attended the Summer Residency in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and was selected for inclusion in the Creative Quarterly 45 and interviewed for Design and Paper. Rachel illustrated Little Guides to Great Lives: Charles Darwin (Laurence King, 2018) as well as Ada Lovelace and the Number-Crunching Machine (North/South, 2019) which Kirkus called, “Inspiring, feminist, and informative in equal parts.” She is also the illustrator of Evie Robillard’s picture book A Portrait In Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (Kids Can Press, 2020) which the New York Times called “delightful.” Rachel’s debut picture book as author-illustrator, Skater Cielo, (Scholastic, 2022) received starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, which wrote, “Colorful, sparse art with bold colors and unusual angles commits to an exceptional depiction of Cielo’s flights and tumbles. Above all, the emphasis on community offers a rousing image of skateboarding.” The book was a Scholastic Book Club pick and selected for the Reach Out and Read program.
Rachel is represented by Abigail Samoun.
