Bailey Fort is an author, illustrator, book-maker, graphic designer, and all-around creator-of-things. Her debut picture book, The Bewundering World of Bewilderbeests, is now available in print and as an ebook.

A graduate of Queen's University and the George Brown College School of Design, her award-winning work has appeared in Applied Arts Magazine and the Graphis New Talent Annual.

Born with a craniofacial difference that involves the necessity of a hearing aid as well as structural difficulties with speech, Bailey’s early experiences with speech therapy and extra efforts to express herself and be clearly understood helped foster her own love of language, something she aims to share in her work for children. Wordplay and poetry, hallmarks of her work (along with a strong dose of wit), are especially effective for teaching speech sounds and helping kids become fluent decoders—essential to the development of language and reading skills as well as a lifelong love of reading itself.  

Bailey is based in downtown Toronto, where she lives with her very own Bewilderbeest named Gilda.