Ellen Wein­stein is the illus­tra­tor of the pic­ture book Yay­oi Kusama: From Here to Infin­i­ty and the author/​illustrator of Recipes for Good Luck: The Super­sti­tions, Rit­u­als, and Prac­tices of Extra­or­di­nary Peo­ple. As an illus­tra­tor, she is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Time Mag­a­zine, The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, and The Atlantic, amongst many oth­ers. Sev­en pieces of Ellen’s work are in the Per­ma­nent Col­lec­tion of the Library of Con­gress. Ellen is a third-gen­er­a­tion res­i­dent of New York’s Low­er East Side, where she lives with her hus­band and mini-dachs­hund, Fritzie.