Maja Kastelic is a freelance author and illustrator. She studied Painting and Theory of Visual Culture, while working many years as a fresco retouche painter. Her silent book A Boy and a House and her other work has been awarded, exhibited and published all over the world, among others at the Bologna Illustrators and Le Immagini della Fantasia Sarmede exhibitions, White Ravens selection, Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava and Slovenian Biennale of Illustration.