Ayun Halliday

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Ayun Halliday
Born	March 29, 1965 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Occupation	Writer and Actor
Nationality	American
Genres	Children's books
Notable work(s)	Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste
ayunhalliday.com

Ayun Halliday (pronounced as "Ann") is a writer and actor.

She is best known as the author and illustrator (or, as Halliday herself terms it, "the chief primatologist") of the long-running zine The East Village Inky. The zine got its name from Halliday's living in New York City's East Village, and "Inky" being the nickname of her then-infant daughter.^[1]

She is Bust magazine's Mother Superior columnist, in which she often discusses motherhood, her children and social issues.

Her first graphic novel, Peanut, is to be published in the summer of 2011.

Initially named "Anne", Halliday was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 29, 1965. She has no siblings. She attended Park Tudor School and Northwestern University, where she obtained a degree in theater performance. After graduating, she joined the Neo-Futurists, an experimental theater troupe in Chicago. It was during her tenure with the troupe that she met her husband, playwright Greg Kotis.

She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with Kotis and their two children, India and Milo.

She participates yearly in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.

Published books

The Big Rumpus (published in the UK as Mama Lama Ding Dong) (2002)
No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (2003)
Job Hopper (2005)
Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste (2006)
Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo (2009)
The Zinester's Guide to NYC (2010)

References

External links

• Official website
• Dirty Sugar Cookies food blog
• Whogoslavia? travel blog
• 2006 Interview with Ayun
• Works by or about Ayun Halliday in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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