Tonya Engel was born in Houston, Texas and travelled extensively in the US and Europe before settling down in her studio in Brooklyn, NY. Tonya Engel is a self-taught painter. After a short-lived exploration in her earlier career with abstract painting, she began to totally concentrate on figurative form mixed with the emotion and expressionistic boldness that makes her works resolutely contemporary.

Books by Tonya Engel

When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders

Written by J. Patrick Lewis, Illustrated by Jim Burke, R. Gregory Christie, Tonya Engel, John Parra and Meilo So - Children's, Fiction, History, Poetry, Poetry Collection