About
Magdalena Mora is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer with a degree in English and Studio Art from Macalester College. She has illustrated a number of children’s books including Pura Belpré Honor Award-winning books The Notebook Keeper, written by Stephen Briseño, and Still Dreaming/Seguimos Soñando, written by Claudia Martinez. Her clients include: The American Swedish Institute, Penguin/Random House, Chronicle Books, NPR, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Magdalena grew up between Chicago, Texas, and Mexico and is now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she can be found reading, cooking, and working in her ceramics studio.
Selected Interviews/Press
Select Awards
2025 Macalester Young Alumni Award
2025 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Finalist (Barrio Rising: The Protest that Built Chicano Park)
2024 One Book One San Diego Selection (Barrio Rising: The Protest that Built Chicano Park)
2023 Pura Belpré Honor Book (Still Dreaming/Seguimos Soñando)
2023 Pura Belpré Honor Book (The Notebook Keeper)
2019-2020 Loft Literary Center Windows and Mirrors Fellow
2021 and 2022 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Award (I Wish You Knew, The Notebook Keeper)
Parents’ Choice Award Spring 2020 (Equality’s Call)
Contact
For all book/publishing projects, please contact Steven Malk at Writer’s House: smalk@writershouse.com
For everything else, please use the contact form. Thanks!
