Kelly Furuya is a book-loving, bird-obsessed illustrator from O'ahu, Hawai'i. Her personal work is strongly influenced by fairy tales, mythology and the surreal, often in some combination of colored pencil, graphite, pastel and watercolor.
Since graduating in 2010 with a BFA from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, she has published two adult coloring books through Mutual Publishing under the name Kelly Monis. She was also a children's bookseller for Barnes and Noble for 10 years---which is fitting, since picture books are where her obsession with art began!
Kelly is currently working toward a degree in Wildlife Conservation Biology. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, gardening, watching horror movies, and keeping up with three mischievous green-cheek conures named Pixel, Vosco and Captain.
