Tony Sansevero received his art education at Massachusetts College of Art, in Boston.

He currently runs ‘Magical Ideas’, an illustration studio in Austin, Texas, where he creates a diverse array of illustration and artwork for picture books, magazines, book covers, greeting cards, portraits, and private commission.

Although he works with a large variety of freelance illustration, he specializes in children's art for books, magazines, posters, and greeting cards. He has illustrated over 15 picture books and teen novels, including Bruce Coville’s I Was a Sixth-Grade Alien series , Sing, Henrietta, Sing! by Lynn Downey, and Donna Guthrie’s The Secret Admirer. He is an award winning fine artist as well.

Mr. Sansevero is a member of the Society Of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and has lectured in numerous schools and organizations on the joys of illustration.

He loves cooking, hiking, tree climbing, Halloween, animals, books, good theater and bad horror movies.

He dislikes cottage cheese.