Tricia Tusa

Tricia Tusa is an illustrator a picture book author from New Mexico who has illustrated and written more than 50 picture books and graphic novels. Tusa was born in a swampy part of Texas in 1960 and in her twenties, she moved to New York City before she finally settled in northern New Mexico where she now makes her home. Tricia is always thinking about her stories much of the time as her inspiration sometimes comes from the things she hears or sees all around her, which she then puts down on a binder. Since she has been doing this for years, she has a huge binder full of ideas that she often refers to when she wants to write something new. She has said that it just feels good walking around documenting what she finds interesting about her world. Since she has been at this for so long, she has ideas that go back three decades though some of these ideas have not been developed. Tusa loves writing for children as she likes to relive her childhood through stories. She likes that she gets to write for the little girl that she once was by asking questions such as what clothes would such a girl want, how would her mother respond to her and how would she want to end the story.