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Alyssa Bermudez (born November 11, 1988) is an author, illustrator, and art teacher known for her works [Big Apple Diaries, Lucía the Luchadora].

Biography (or Early Life and Education)

Alyssa Bermudez was born and raised in New York and received her graduate and undergraduate degree in illustration and animation at the Fashion Institute for Technology. She currently lives in Tasmania, Australia. She is an author, illustrator and an art teacher. According to her official website it is important to her to make engaging stories that make learning fun while representing diversity and being mindful of the multitude of children’s backgrounds. One can find her work in magazines, on stages, in several children’s books, on fabric, in fashion, on greeting cards, on product packaging and so much more. (Reference 3.) Bermudez also is known for participating in an arts and music program at the Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania. The program started in 2015 by the non-profit organisation, Inscape Tasmania and strives to bring art and music to patients. In 2019 the program employed 2 artists and 4 musicians, Bermudez being one of them. In this program she visits and talks with the patient for 3-4 hours and creates personalized artwork to uplift patients and encourage staff and others to see patients as people rather than their illness. Her styles and techniques include cartoon, design, digital, gouache, line, line with color, pastel, stylized, watercolor, decorative and pattern. (Reference 2.) Her subject(s) and specialties are action, botanical, children, children's books, comic book, greeting cards, holidays, licensing, packaging, sports, lifestyle, feminine, ethnic, urban and surface design. (Reference 2.)

Art (or Notable Works or Selected Works. Also Exhibitions, Projects, Collections)

Big Apple Diaries, August 2021, published by Roaring Brook Press, written and illustrated by ME!

We Laugh Alike Juntos Nos Reimos, April 2021, published by Charlesbridge, written by Carmen T Bernier Grand

Art Direction and Fabric Design for Keshet 2016-2019

Art Teacher since 2011

Artist for Inscape Tasmania since 2018

You and Me and the Space Between, illustrator for Terrapin Theatre Tour of China 2019 My Singing Nana, 2019, published by Magination Press, written by Pat Mora Goodnight 70s, 2019, published by Andrews McMeel, written by Peter Stein

Becoming Beatriz cover wrap art, 2019, published by Charlesbridge, written by Tami Charles Amelia Chamelia Series Books 1-4, published by Penguin Random House Australia, written by Laura Sieveking

Lucia The Luchadora & The Million Masks, 2018, published by POW! Kids, written by Cynthia Leonor Garza

Lucia The Luchadora, 2017, published by POW! Kids, written by Cynthia Leonor Garza (Reference 3.)

Some of her awards and honors include: Junior Library Guild Selection- Big Apple Diaries, Américas Award Commended Title - Lucía the Luchadora, Amelia Bloomer Book List - Lucía the Luchadora, NPR Best Books of the Year – Lucía the Luchadora, Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books – Lucía the Luchadora, Kirkus’s Best Picture Books to Give Readers Strength – Lucía the Luchadora (see reference 1.)