Tonya Engel is a self-taught artist living near San Antonio, Texas. Folk artists of the Deep South have influenced her work, as well as artists such as Frida Kahlo and Romare Bearden. Engel is the illustrator for Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou, by Bethany Hegedus, and 2025 Anna Dewdney Read-Together Award winner, My Hands Tell a Story, by Kelly Starling Lyons. See her work at tonyaengelart.com.
