Diana Sudyka is a Chicago area based illustrator. Early in her career she created screen-printed posters for musicians including Andrew Bird, St. Vincent, and The Black Keys, and from there moved into the publishing world by illustrating several volumes of the best-selling series The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. Working mainly in gouache, watercolor, and ink, subject matter and aesthetic choices for her paintings are inspired by a passion for nature and science, as well as various folk-art traditions. Her children’s picture book work includes: Sometimes Rain by Meg Fleming (Beach Lane Books/Simon and Schuster), What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett ( Beach Lane Books), How to Find a Bird by Jennifer Ward (Beach Lane Books), Dear Treefrog by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin), Fungi Grow by Maria Gianferrari (Beach Lane Books), and Angela’s Glacier by Jordan Scott (Holiday House, 2024). In April 2023 she had her author illustrator debut Little Land (Little Brown for Young Readers).
