Alyssa Bermudez, author illustrator of graphic memor Run Home

Meet Alyssa

Alyssa Bermudez (she/her) is a New York–born illustrator, designer, and cartoonist living down under in Tasmania, Australia. She loves telling real-life stories through ink, watercolour, and digital illustration, often drawing from her own diaries, memories, and messy, emotional moments.

Alyssa is the author and illustrator of the middle-grade graphic memoir Big Apple Diaries (2021), which is now held in the permanent collection of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. Her latest graphic novel memoir, Run Home, explores friendship, running, and navigating grief with creativity, honesty, and heart.

Her work spans graphic novels, picture books, surface design, live event illustration, and performance, and has appeared in over a dozen children’s books, fabric collections, and on stage. When she’s not making comics, Alyssa works as an art director, live-sketches weddings and events, teaches art workshops, and presents to schools about writing and illustration.

Alyssa is obsessed with dogs, books, travel, live drawing, and keeping plants alive.

Let’s dive deeper

    • Run Home: A Graphic Memoir, January 2026, written and illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez.

    • Iveliz Explains It All, September 2022, written by Andrea Beatriz Arango, interior illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez

    • Big Apple Diaries, August 2021, written and illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez.

    • We Laugh Alike Juntos Nos Reimos, April 2021, written by Carmen T Bernier Grand illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez

    • Art Direction and Strategy for Keshet 2016-2019, 2022-Present

    • Art Teacher 2011-2022

    • Artist for Inscape Tasmania 2018-2022

    • You and Me and the Space Between, illustrator for Terrapin Theatre Tour of China 2019

    • My Singing Nana, 2019, written by Pat Mora illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez

    • Goodnight 70s, 2019, written by Peter Stein illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez

    • Becoming Beatriz cover wrap art, 2019, written by Tami Charles

    • Amelia Chamelia Series Books 1-4, written by Laura Sieveking illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez

    • Lucia The Luchadora & The Million Masks, 2018, written by Cynthia Leonor Garza illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez

    • Lucia The Luchadora, 2017, written by Cynthia Leonor Garza illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez

  • Roaring Brook Press, Random House USA, Curriculum Associates, Charlesbridge Publishing, Magination Press, Andrews McMeel, Penguin Random House Australia, POW! Kids, Highlights for Children Magazine, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson Publishing, McGraw Hill, Benchmark Education, The STUDIO NYC, New York Magazine, Dan Murphy’s, Hobart City Council, Mystate Bank, CSIRO Australia, Terrapin Theatre Company, Urban Smarts Project and more…

    • Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection 2025- Run Home

    • Big Apple Diaries - Now a part of the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s permanent collection

    • Newbery Honor Award - Iveliz Explains it All

    • Short Listed for The Comic Awards of Australia 2022

    • ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children 2021- Big Apple Diaries

    • Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection 2021 - 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

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