Felicia Hoshino was born in San Francisco, California where she continues to live with her family. Upon deciding to make art her career, she attended California College of the Arts, where she earned a BFA in Illustration. Felicia's prize-winning illustrations can now be seen in children's magazines Cricket, Spider, and Ladybug and in children's books such as Little Sap and Monsieur Rodin, the Jane Addams Peace Award winning A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, and My Dog Teny published by JCCCNC, all accepted into the Society of Illustrator's The Original Art exhibitions. Her most recent book, Sora and the Cloud, an English and Japanese bilingual book, is published by Immedium and due out in November 2011.In addition to creating mixed-media images for children's books and magazines, she enjoys illustrating children's portraiture, cooking with her husband and decorating the walls at home with art created by her son and daughter.