Timi Bliss

Timi Bliss is a hybrid picture book author, digital collage illustrator, and publisher of books that highlight the everyday lives of Black children. Her rhyming books include the bedtime story, In Search of the Sandman (2017); a new twist on the old classic, In Search of the Gingerbread Man (2019); and the personalized book celebrating diversity, The Magic in Me (2021) - published by I See Me, in partnership with Crayola®, and illustrated by Kamala Nair.

Her forthcoming picture book, Kenya Make Some Room?! (2024), is her first book written in prose, and shows how solutions to problems can be found in the most unlikely of places, and we can reach great heights when we work together. Soon to follow, will be the publication of Nana’s Magic Cornbread Spoon, an endearing story showing the powerful connection between food, family, and tradition.

Timi has created community artwork for the Black Lives Matter street mural and Metro Transit buses and shelters in Minneapolis; and produced a virtual story time video series for the Ramsey County Library. In 2022, In Search of the Gingerbread Man was included in the “Stars of the North Storytime” picture book exhibit at the Mpls/St Paul International airport. She lives in Minneapolis and is a doting grandma to her granddaughter, Charlie.