Maya Gonzalez

Maya Gonzalez is a Chicanx, queer femme artist, progressive educator, and award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. Their work focuses on systemic inequity related to race, sexism, and cissexism, and they are also the creator of the Gender Wheel, an approach to gender and body diversity.

Gonzalez has illustrated more than twenty children’s books and has both written and illustrated several, including I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el río me ama and Call Me Tree / Llámame árbol. They also co-founded Reflection Press, an independent, POC-, queer-, and trans-owned publishing house. For My Diary from Here to There / Mi diario de aquí hasta allá, Gonzalez is credited as the illustrator.