Diana Zela

Diana Zela, Mexican illustrator, has lived in the same house at the foot of a hill since she was born. She loves animals, plants, picture books, bookbinding, and sweets. She flipped a coin, and it led her to study graphic design and illustration at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM. She works in children’s literature and has collaborated with various publishing houses, such as Pearson, Macmillan, SM, among others. Her first book as an author, Nero, was published by the Pixelatl Festival. Seeking to restructure her career, she has decided to put aside the computer for a while and get her hands dirty again, doing what she loved most as a child: staining paper and cutting it out. With these new experiments, that bring her back to her years of playing in her grandma’s house, she has generated images that have been finalists in various international competitions and exhibitions, such as the Illustrators’ Exhibition at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, the 67th Society of Illustrators Exhibition, finalist in the Illustrators’ Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and longlisted at the World Illustration Awards.