Featured Author Presentation - Rosalie Haizlett

The 2026 West Virginia Book Festival will feature presentations from bestselling national authors and local and regional authors. All events and programs are free and open to the public.
Rosalie Haizlett is an illustrator and author whose work celebrates the hidden wonders of the natural world. Her presentation will begin at 9 am in room 204-5, located in the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center
Haizlett has been an artist-in-residence at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with the National Audubon Society, and at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. In 2022, she was awarded the Eckelberry Fellowship for distinguished wildlife illustrators. The author and illustrator of Watercolor in Nature and her latest book, Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains, Haizlett lives on the edge of Monongahela National Forest in Elkins, West Virginia.
For more about Rosalie Haizlett and the West Virginia Book Festival, visit http://www.wvbookfestival.org/