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Breena Nuñez (she/they) is a Bay Area bred cartoonist and former Senior Adjunct professor who taught Race & Comics at California College of the Arts. She creates diary comics that often explore themes surrounding the awkwardness of racism, being a queer Afrodescendiente from the Bay Area, and understanding what it means to be Central American from the US. Their hope as a cartoonist & educator is to help BIPOC folks give themselves permission to express their personal stories through the language of comics. Nowadays they are sharing laughs with their fiery toddler over a cup o’ joe brewed by her spouse (Lawrence Lindell), and writing as many stories for future comic strips about non-binary motherhood in our current time and continuing to work on their graphic memoir, Morena.

In previous years they have had the opportunity to step into residencies on the West Coast of Turtle Island (United States). Breena was selected to be one of the very first Artists-In-Residence at The Ruby in the Mission District of San Francisco. Eventually they made their way up towards Portland, Oregon to be a Parent Author-In-Residence at the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House).

Breena’s works are primarily self-published as zines through the family run small press she co-founded, Laneha House. You will also find some comics in other publications such as The New Yorker: Daily Shouts and The Nib, as well as in anthologies like Tales From La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology, Drawing Power (Eisner Award Winner 2020), Be Gay, Do Comics! (Ignatz Award Winner 2020), and When Language Broke Open.