Stef is a Freelance Illustrator and Storyteller living in Norwich. She was born as part of a BOGOF deal with her twin brother to join her 5 other siblings. Since then she has starred in such plays as ‘A Murphy Christmas Production’ and the Living Room sell out show ‘The Match Match Twins’.

Despite indisputable success in the acting world, Stef decided that her real love lay elsewhere — on the carpet, drawing animals and making up stories about cement fairies and misunderstood minotaurs.

On one occasion her sister told her a story that made her laugh so hard she wet herself. Although she would dread to think that this information would be declared freely on the internet, she insists that this is the precedent she must live up to and that her book will, one day, make you too wet yourself.

Want to get in touch?

Email Stef.murphy.illustration@gmail.com

Want to see more of her work? Find her on Instagram

Picture Books

‘A Fairy Called Fred’ Bloomsbury

‘Out of the Blue’ Bloomsbury Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2024, Shortlisted for Spark! Book Awards 2024

‘The Worry Tiger’ Two Hoots

‘The Fire Fox’ Two Hoots Nominated for Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2022, Shorlisted for the Oscar’s Book Prize 2021

Educational Books

‘The Friendship Book’ Arcturus

‘Find your Courage’ Arcturus

‘In the City’ Quarto Kids Publishing

‘Wonders of the Word’ Quarto Kids Publishing

‘Rainforests’ Quarto Kids Publishing

‘Vikings’ Quarto Kids Publishing

Poetry

‘Pickling with Words’ Salaryia Publishing

‘Tickling with words’ Salaryia Publishing

The Jazzy Stuff

Shortlisted for The Oscars book Prize 2022

Plum Illustration Award Winner

Greenman Festival T-Shirt Design Winner

Tapirulan Illustrators Contest Exhibition Bologna 2017

Prince and Pilgrim 2016 &2017

The Affordable Art Fair 2017