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Book launches, quilt art process, life between Bénin and New York, school visits, and bilingual adventures from wherever the world takes her next.

Awards

2018, November: New Mexico

• NM AZ Book Coop Award for best bilingual children’s book, Playing with Osito | Jugando con Baby Bear.

Publications

2026, February:

• “Q&A with Lisa Maria Burgess, Author of Snowpal Soccer” by Britain Powers

2025, December 5: Literary Hub

An interview with Esther Mngodo for The Citizen (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania).

Events

2026, May 21: New Preston Marble Dale, CT at the Washington Montessori School

• Reading of SnowPal Soccer | Les copains de neige jouent au foot followed by artist workshops with students.

2026, May 16 to June 27: West Shokan, NY at the Olive Free Library

• Hand-stitched SnowPal Soccer illustrations featured in By the Book, book arts exhibition curated by Linda Schultz

• June 27 at 2:30 p.m. “Creating Children’s Picture Books” with Lisa Maria Burgess

2026, April 4: Ellenville, NY at The Common Good

• Reading of SnowPal Soccer / Les copains de neige jouent au foot

• Talk: Stitching Analogue Art for Children’s Picture Book

2026, March 24: Mount Vernon, NY at the Public Library

• Reading of Playing with Osito | Jugando con Baby Bear

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Recent Events

2018, March:New York

• Reading of Playing with Osito | Jugando con Baby Bear with Susan L. Roth at Worldfest, BASIS Independent Brooklyn.

• Reading of Playing with Osito | Jugando con Baby Bear with Susan L. Roth at WordUp Community Bookshop in Harlem.

2015, March to April: Beijing, China

• Reading of Juma's Dhow Race at the Bookworm Cafe.

• Author visit to the International Montessori School of Beijing.

• ​​Author visit to the Dulwich College of Beijing.

2014, March: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

• Book event at A Novel Idea Slipway.

• Author visit to the International School of Tanganyika Elementary.

• Author visit to the Dar es Salaam International Academy.

• Author visit to the Aga Khan primary.

Lisa Maria says, “we need more storytellers. We need a thousand voices and more in Tanzania. I hope that my writing inspires someone else to write as well,” in an interview with Esther Mngodo for The Citizen (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: 2014).

2013, July: Taos, New Mexico

• Launch of the Tanzania Juma Stories with Moby Dickens Bookshop at Twirl Toy Store and Playspace.