Angela Quezada Padron

Angela Quezada Padron is a Latina author-illustrator who spent childhood days writing stories and doodling on garage walls of her New Jersey home while enjoying summers visiting family in the Dominican Republic. She writes fiction and nonfiction picture books and novels, and she creates colorful, textured illustrations with diverse characters & heartwarming scenes. Angela won first place in the Portfolio Showcase at the 2023 Florida SCBWI Conference and was chosen as a semi-finalist for the SCBWI Tomie dePaola Award in 2014.

Angela has been an educator for 30 years. She also works as a freelance writer, illustrator and editor for educational publishers. Angela is an avid seashells collector, Broadway musical enthusiast, sports nut, and admirer of the wonder of nature & engineering marvels.

Her debut author/illustrator picture book, AS THE SEAS RISE: NICOLE HERNANDEZ HAMMER AND THE FIGHT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE released with Atheneum Books 6/11/2024. Be on the lookout for her other upcoming books (FROM THE FIELDS TO THE FIGHT: HOW JESSICA GOVEA THORBOURNE ORGANIZED FOR JUSTICE (Atheneum Books, 2026), AN ISLAND CALLED HOME (Eerdman’s Books, 2026) and LUCIA'S GOALS (Lee & Low, TBD).