Emily O'Neill is a Sydney-based freelance book designer and illustrator. She has previously worked in-house for Penguin Random-House, Murdoch Books and Allen & Unwin on a wide range of projects including commercial and literary fiction, children's and illustrated lifestyle titles. She has created designs for local and international publishers including Pan Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hardie Grant, Bloomsbury Publishing, Atlantic Books, Hachette UK and Simon & Schuster. In between projects she has lectured in Graphics/Media at UNSW's College of Fine Arts and a Committee Member of the Australian Book Designers Association. She has received several ABDA Book Design Awards including Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover for The Gulf, and in 2011 was awarded The Australian Publishers Association's Young Designer of the Year.