Zeke Peña is a Xicano cartoonist from El Paso, TX. His author-illustrator debut, Sundust won a Caldecott Honor Award and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Book Award. His illustrations won the Ezra Jack Keats Honor Award and Pura Belpre Honor Award for the book My Papi Has a Motorcycle, the Boston Horn Book award for Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide, and the NY Times Best-Selling Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel . Zeke is self-taught in the studio and earned a degree in Art History from University of Texas at Austin. He is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in NW Arkansas or throwing rocks in a creek somewhere with his son.
