Cindy Lozito

@cindylozito.com

Artist | Rep’d by Saritza Hernández at Andrea Brown for kid lit | Somehow have a 5+ year duolingo streak | Philly📍

Cindy's work in WHAT KIND OF QUEEN? A ROYAL BIOGRAPHY OF DRAG QUEEN AND ACTIVIST JOSÉ SARRIA is also featured in the @publisherswkly.bsky.social article: Queer History for Kids & Teens. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Queer History for Kids & Teens

Accounts of real-life and fictional LGBTQ+ people illuminate stories from the margins.

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Cindy Lozito@cindylozito.com · 4mo ago

Hello #portfolioday! I’m Cindy Lozito, an illustrator and muralist based in Philadelphia 🎨 I’m looking for illustration work for picture books, board books, or covers - especially for fall 2026. 🔗 cindylozito.com 💌 cindylozito@gmail.com My agent: @litagentsaritza.bsky.social

A board book illustration sample of a Caribbean girl sitting with her toy in a butterfly farm

I have a folder on my phone called 'museum trips' with hundreds of photos I've taken from museums around the world. I love combing through it for inspiration in my #kidlitart pieces. This one in particular is inspired by what it felt like to see Starry Night at for the first time as a kid 🌠

A kid lit illustration by Cindy Lozito of three kids drawing at an art table while one spaces out, imagining himself as a star in Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night

🌈COVER REVEAL: WHAT KIND OF QUEEN? Out with Abrams Books on April 28, 2026! A joyous picture book biography of José Sarria, a pioneering activist, drag queen, and the first openly gay candidate to run for public office in the United States. So honored that this is my picture book illustrator debut!

The cover of What Kind of Queen? featuring José Sarria holding a giant rainbow over the Painted Ladies of San Francisco. Hu’s enormous dress and cape hold the book’s subtitle and author and illustrator credits.

Comic book writers are lovely, creative, collaborative people! With great vision! But I cannot stress enough these projects cannot exist without artistic skill and visual narrative practice bringing the story to life. And time. It takes time. It takes more hours of an artist's life to create a book.