Michael Leannah writes both fiction and nonfiction for children and for adults. In addition to authoring
Most People (Tilbury House, 2017), Michael has been published in Scholastic's
Instructor and
Highlights for Children, Countdown, and
Ladybug magazines. He has been an instructor in the Milwaukee and Sheboygan public schools for more than thirty years and is the creator of We Think with Ink, a writing program for elementary and middle school students. He lives with his family in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Illustrator, painter and writer, he got a degree in Art History at the University of Barcelona, and studied illustration at La Llotja Arts and crafts school, in Barcelona. He completed his academic training with film direction studies and doctoral courses of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. He won the Young Creators prize from the Fita Foundation, the second prize in the international drawing competition in Zabrze, Poland, and the second prize of BIISA Festival in Amarante, Portugal. He has been selected at international festivals such as the CJBooks of Korea, or the Illustrakids of Italy, and has exhibited his pictorial work in France, Italy and Hungary. He has published books in Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Korea, China and Estonia.
