Maria J Garcia is a Cuban-American designer, illustrator, and storyteller. At the age of six she immigrated to the United States with her parents and two older sisters to start a new life in the tropical city of Miami, Florida. After deciding on a career in the arts, she moved to Baltimore in 2013 to pursue a B.F.A in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since graduating in 2017 she has working as an environmental graphic designer at BCT Design Group.