2024 Madrina Mentor
Margarita Engle
Learn more about your mentor:
Preferred Age Category: YA, Middle Grade, and Picture Book (see genres below) Preferred Genre or Sub-Genres: Novels-in-verse for the YA and MG ages and poetry picture books As a mentor I love working on: Craft. Areas of expertise/strengths as a mentor: My weakness as a mentor is querying agents. |
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ABOUT MARGARITA...
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of books such as Enchanted Air, Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Surrender Tree, which received a Newbery Honor. She served as the national 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Other awards include Pura Belpré Medals, the Golden Kite Award, Walter Honors, Américas Awards, Jane
Addams Award, PEN U.S.A., and NSK Neustadt Prize. Recent young adult verse novels include Wings in the Wild and Wild Dreamers.
Recent picture books include Water Day and The Sculptors of Light. Engle’s next verse novel is Island Creatures, and her next picture book is Eloísa’s Musical Window. Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy and botany along with creative writing, and now lives in central California with her entomologist husband and squirrel-chasing Border Collie.
www.margaritaengle.com
Facebook: Margarita Engle
Twitter: @margaritapoet
Instagram: @engle.margarita
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of books such as Enchanted Air, Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Surrender Tree, which received a Newbery Honor. She served as the national 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Other awards include Pura Belpré Medals, the Golden Kite Award, Walter Honors, Américas Awards, Jane
Addams Award, PEN U.S.A., and NSK Neustadt Prize. Recent young adult verse novels include Wings in the Wild and Wild Dreamers.
Recent picture books include Water Day and The Sculptors of Light. Engle’s next verse novel is Island Creatures, and her next picture book is Eloísa’s Musical Window. Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy and botany along with creative writing, and now lives in central California with her entomologist husband and squirrel-chasing Border Collie.
www.margaritaengle.com
Facebook: Margarita Engle
Twitter: @margaritapoet
Instagram: @engle.margarita