Pastuchiv, Olga

Olga Pastuchiv is a children's book author, painter, and commercial illustrator. Whether working on a fishing boat in Greece or as a landscape gardener in New England, Olga is always painting. She paints things large and small, from murals and parade floats to illustrations for several poetry and botany collections and a cookbook. Her picture book Minas and the Fish is about a fisherman's boy she met on Karpathos Island. Olga lives in Maine with two cats, one the remarkable therapy cat Uruk, who helps sick and older people.