Bruna Assis Brasil was born in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1986. She majored in Journalism and Graphic Design, later specializing in Illustration, at the Escola de Disseny i Art in Barcelona. Bruna has illustrated more than 40 books and won the Jabuti Prize, Brazil’s highest award for children´s illustrations, in 2016. She also won the 2015 Açorianos Prize for Literature, and her work was selected in 2012 and 2016 for Crescer magazine’s Thirty Best Children’s Books of the Year in Brazil.