Orli Zuravicky

Orli Zuravicky is a writer, an editor, and an amateur interior designer, which basically means she likes to paint stuff in her apartment. She grew up in a small suburb of Albany, New York, where the most exciting thing to do as a teenager was park somewhere illegally. She is one of four sisters, which has offered her plenty of fodder for her writing. After high school, she moved to New York City to attend Barnard College, Columbia University, where she double majored in Psychology and English and got rejected from the Poetry department. She always loved writing, but it wasn’t until a few years after graduation that she started writing fiction and taking it seriously. Her first original board book, Mister Doodle: C Is for City, came out in 2

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