Ericka Lugo

Ericka Lugo is a Puerto Rican illustrator. She grew up in Ponce and later studied in Río Piedras, where she fell asleep to the song of coquís (small frogs). She has illustrated book covers for publishers including Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Tundra, and HarperCollins, as well as the picture book La Bandera by Anika Aldamuy and the middle grade novel How to Play Hockey Like a Viking God by Rachel Poliquin. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, where they do their best to convince the local birds to pick their feeder over the neighbor’s.