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GLORIA AMESCUA
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August 17, 2021
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NEW CHILD OF THE FLOWER-SONG PEOPLE: LUZ JIMÉNEZ, DAUGHTER OF THE NAHUA...
Gloria Amescua’s debut picture book biography, NEW CHILD OF THE FLOWER-SONG PEOPLE: LUZ JIMÉNEZ, DAUGHTER OF THE NAHUA is about an Indigenous Nahua woman who grew up in Mexico during the early 1900s and eventually became a model for internationally celebrated 20th-century artists, worked with scholars to preserve Nahuatl language and stories, and was known as the "soul of Mexico."
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Gloria Amescua’s debut picture book biography, NEW CHILD OF THE FLOWER-SONG PEOPLE: LUZ JIMÉNEZ, DAUGHTER OF THE NAHUA is about an Indigenous Nahua woman who grew up in Mexico during the early 1900s and eventually became a model for internationally celebrated 20th-century artists, worked with scholars to preserve Nahuatl language and stories, and was known as the "soul of Mexico."
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ABOUT GLORIA...
Gloria Amescua (Ah MES qua) loves books that reach a young person’s heart, head or funny bone and strives to do just that in her writing. She is an educator, poet and children’s book writer. Her debut picture book biography, NEW CHILD OF THE FLOWER-SONG PEOPLE: LUZ JIMÉNEZ, DAUGHTER OF THE NAHUA is written in verse and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams Books, fall 2021). An earlier version won the 2016 Lee and Low New Voices Honor Award. A Hedgebrook alumna and an inaugural CantoMundo fellow, Gloria’s poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt acquired one of her poems for their national textbook literature series. Gloria is represented by Taylor Martindale Kean at Full Circle Literary.
Connect with her:
https://www.gloriaamescua.com
@GloriaAmescua (Twitter)
@gloriaamescuawriter (Instagram)
facebook.com/gloriaamescuawriter
Gloria Amescua (Ah MES qua) loves books that reach a young person’s heart, head or funny bone and strives to do just that in her writing. She is an educator, poet and children’s book writer. Her debut picture book biography, NEW CHILD OF THE FLOWER-SONG PEOPLE: LUZ JIMÉNEZ, DAUGHTER OF THE NAHUA is written in verse and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams Books, fall 2021). An earlier version won the 2016 Lee and Low New Voices Honor Award. A Hedgebrook alumna and an inaugural CantoMundo fellow, Gloria’s poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt acquired one of her poems for their national textbook literature series. Gloria is represented by Taylor Martindale Kean at Full Circle Literary.
Connect with her:
https://www.gloriaamescua.com
@GloriaAmescua (Twitter)
@gloriaamescuawriter (Instagram)
facebook.com/gloriaamescuawriter