Meet Angela!

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Angela Quezada Padron is a Latina author-illustrator who spent her childhood days writing stories and doodling on the garage walls of her New Jersey home while enjoying summers visiting family in the Dominican Republic. She writes fiction and nonfiction picture books, poetry, board books, chapter books, and middle grade novels, and she creates colorful, textured illustrations with diverse characters and heartwarming scenes.

 

Angela has been an educator for the last 30 years. She earned an MFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University as well as an MA in Curriculum and Instruction, an EdS in Reading, a BA in Art, and an AA in Music. In addition, Angela is a freelance writer, illustrator, developmental editor, and consultant for educational publishers and literary organizations. Besides her published children's books, Angela has written, edited, and art directed a series decodable books called Cover to Cover as part of the Reading Partners curriculum that addresses the science of reading.

 

When she's not working, you may find Angela creating fine art, observing wild dolphins, relearning how to play the guitar and piano, singing along to Lady Gaga, watching sports and nature shows, binging on Star Wars spinoffs, or spending time with her family collecting shells near their home in southwest Florida.