FORMER REGIONAL ADVISOR FOR SOCIETY OF CHILDREN’S BOOK WRITERS & ILLUSTRATORS (SCBWI) SWTEXAS CHAPTER 

I am pleased to announce that I have obtained agent representation by Kayla Cichello of Upstart Crow Literary Agency. For publishing inquiries, please contact Kayla at kayla@upstartcrowliterary.com

I am the the author of six award-winning bilingual children’s picture books. My latest historical picture book, Piece by Piece: Ernestine’s Gift for President Roosevelt, illustrated by Anna Lopez Real, and published by Millbrook Press, is now available. Order at Lerner Books, Amazon or your local bookstores.

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I live in Texas but have also lived in Bangkok, Thailand and Okinawa, Japan. I come from a large, close-knit family where my sisters are my best friends.

My writing career took off when I entered a writing contest and was lucky enough to win an all-expense paid trip to New York where I attended a week-long writing workshop. It was a great experience.

I wrote nonfiction short stories and then ventured into children’s picture books. I now have a contract for a middle-grade novel that I have been working on for some time. I dabbled in poetry and had some of it published in anthologies. You never know what can happen when you take a leap of faith and enter a writing contest. Try it!

Memberships: Inductee at Texas Institute of Letters, LAS MUSAS, The Authors’ Guild , Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI),  Writers’ League of Texas, Texas Library Association (TxLA)