Rooftops

Mandy Ord is a comics artist, illustrator, educator, and a disability support worker with a long history of self publishing. Mandy’s first book Rooftops (Finlay Lloyd) 2008 was followed by Sensitive Creatures (Allen & Unwin) in 2011 receiving a White Ravens award at the Bologna Book Fair. She has contributed stories to Meanjin, The Age, Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging and Trouble Magazine. In 2018 she illustrated her first book for children, Chalk Boy published by Allen & Unwin and written by Margaret Wild which was shortlisted in 2019 by CBCA and the Queensland Literary Awards for Picture Book of the Year. Mandy has collaborated with theatre companies, writers, musicians, …