Eva Mlinar (1985) studied art history at the Faculty of Arts and visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works in various artistic fields, with an emphasis on illustration and theatre. She designed the visual identity for the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre shadow play Gallop, worked as art director on the animated TV series Stories from the Draught, and collaborates with the Anton Podbevšek Theatre in Novo Mesto and the Wellcome Collection in London as illustrator and designer. She regularly exhibits at biennials and illustration exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad (Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, France, Germany, Turkey, China). Together with illustrator Hana Jesih, she published the artist’s book Impressions (Ljubljana/Istanbul) in 2018, which received the Hiii Illustration Merit Award in China. In 2019, together with writer Eva Mahkovic, she published a literary and visual collection of grotesques, The Bête Noire Vignettes, which received the Book of the Year Grand Prix at the 2019 Slovenian Book Fair, as well as Special Mention by the President of the Jury at the 14th Slovenian Biennial of Illustration. She is also the recipient of the Brumen Award for her series of book covers for the Ljubljana City Theatre library, and her book covers for the festival Fabula were shortlisted for a Hiii Illustration Merit Award in 2022.