About DeAnn Wiley
Born 1994. DeAnn Wiley is an illustrator, writer and visual artist.
DeAnn Wiley (born 1993) She loved art from a young age and asked her mother to buy art supplies for her when she was in third grade.
Wiley illustrated The Numbers Store: A Sunday Adventures Book (2023) by Harold Green III that follows a family's trip to the grocery store. In 2024 she illustrated My Afro Is a Rising Sun by Yaram Yahu. She also illustrated Marley’s Pride (2024) by Joëlle Retener, a book about a queer Black family.
Wiley's debut book as author-illustrator, Homegrown, was published in 2024 under Henry Holt and tells the story of what home means to a girl, her mother, and grandmother. In 2025 she published her second children's book Double Dutch Queen that Kirkus reviewed positively as "an uplifting story brimming with warmth and the strength of familial love."
Wiley is queer.
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American artist, illustrator and author
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DeAnn Wiley was born in 1994 in Detroit.
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