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Loryn Brantz is an author, illustrator, and design professional with a focus on feminism- and women-related topics. She wrote and illustrated the New York Times bestselling children’s book Feminist Baby and has won two Emmy Awards for her costume work with Sesame Street.

Career
Brantz was a builder and designer at Jim Henson’s workshop from the years 2006 to 2011. She worked with costume design, her work showing up on PBS, Sprout Network, and Sesame Street, the latter with which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Styling in 2011.

Brantz’s children’s book career got a kickstart when she received a 2010 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for Best First Picture Book for Harvey the Child Mime. The book Feminist Baby was published in 2017 and received much national attention, landing it a spot on the bestsellers list. Glowing praise from Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay said the following about the book: “Pictures, here, really are worth a thousand words… making feminism accessible with a keen understanding of what kids need to know about [it] in their young lives… Feminist Baby is not just for babies. It’s for all of us.” The book garnered enough success for Brantz to develop a sequel to be released in 2018 titled Feminist Baby Finds Her Voice! and another book followed shortly in the series called ''Feminist Baby! He’s A Feminist Too!'', released in 2019. About the series, Brantz noted that “We have to raise our kids with their eyes wide open. They’re not going to take away all the nuances and important parts of feminism necessarily, but it’s important just to have it be in their vocabulary and part of their life rather than discovering it when they’re older. It’s so that they’re aware of feminism and see it as a good thing and not a bad thing.”

Additionally, Brantz has worked at Buzzfeed and produced the comic series Jellybean Comics and The Good Advice Cupcake, attracting the attention of over three million people who now follow the series.

Personal life
Brantz lives in New York City with her husband, architect Jake J. Brotter, and baby born in April of 2019.