Margarita Engle
Biography
Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American writer and the winner of the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her award winning young adult novels in verse include THE SURRENDER TREE, THE POET SLAVE OF CUBA, TROPICAL SECRETS and THE FIREFLY LETTERS. THE LIGHTNING DREAMER, one of her most recent books, was a 2014 ALA Pura Belpré Author Honor Book.
Margarita's upcoming book, SILVER PEOPLE, VOICES FROM THE PANAMA CANAL, will be released in 2014.
She lives in central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs.
Margarita Engle
