Donald Budge is a first-time published author from the Massachusetts area. A recent graduate from Connecticut College, he is the winner of the Blue Mesa Review’s 2010 Fiction Contest.
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Daron Parton graduated from Central St Martins in 1989 with a degree in illustration and began working straightaway for the likes of GQ, Esquire, and the New Statesman. He has recently won two prestigious illustration awards: he was Highly Commended in the Australian & New Zealand Illustration Awards 2013 and named all-round winner in “Australian Creatives” Hotshop Award for Illustrator of the Year 2012. His clients include the Wall Street Journal, the Age, the Bulletin, the Spectator (Aus) Director Magazine, New Zealand Herald, Scholastic (US/NZ), Reed Publishing, Fairfax Magazines, Pearson, Mother Earth, and Phoenix Organics. He lives in Australia.