Mira Bartók is the author/illustrator of The Wonderling: Songcatcher published by Candlewick Press and Walker UK. The sequel, The Wonderling: Songcatcher, is due out next winter, 2027.
Mira is also the author/illustrator of The Memory Palace, a New York Times
bestselling memoir and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Her writing for adults has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, noted in The Best American Essays series and has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines and anthologies.
Before she became a full-time author, Mira was a visual artist and exhibited her work in galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. She has also worked as a museum lecturer, public programmer, and cultural specialist at some of the greatest institutions in the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago, the Chicago Children's Museum, the Lincoln Park Children's Zoo, the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and others. Many of Mira's ideas derive from her experiences working at these amazing institutions.
