Michael Gellatly is an artist and freelance illustrator. Gellatly has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions all along the East Coast. He has been a resident at Vermont Studio Center and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Pollock–Krasner Grant. His illustration clients include George R.R. Martin, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hyperion, The New York Times Book Review, and more.