Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American 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, and The Lightning Dreamer, winner of the PEN USA Award.
She lives in central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs.
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