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Claudia Rueda

Claudia Rueda is a Colombian picture book author, The New York Times Best Seller illustrator and a 2016 Hans Christian Andersen award nominee.

She studied Law and Art and completed an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University at Cambridge, MA.

Her books have been published throughout North America, Europe and Asia and have been translated into thirteen different languages. She's the author of Bunny Slopes (Chronicle), a New York Public Library and Junior Library Guild Selection and the illustrator of Here Comes the Easter Bunny (Dial), a Kirkus Best Book of the year and a Goodreads Choice Award.

This year, 2025, Claudia taught a course in Picture Book Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. During the pandemic lockdown she designed a workshop for Domestika on how to think, plan out and write a picture book.

With regard to the role of luck in her success, Claudia quotes Seneca “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” She embellishes this by telling students to show up every day: "... sooner or later the train of luck will pass." She points out that one cannot control luck, but by being disciplined it can eventually show up. Provided by Wikipedia