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 Eloísa’s Musical Window and Water Day. Engle’s next verse novel is Island Creatures.
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.
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Book Purchases
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Amazon Purchase |
| Wild Dreamers (4/2024) | Margarita Engle | Hardcover | Paperback | |
| Eloísa’s Musical Window (8/2024) | Margarita Engle | John Parra | Hardcover | Kindle |
| Eloísa y su ventanita musical (8/2024) | Margarita Engle | John Parra | Hardcover | Paperback |
Social Media
| Website | Twitter/X | ||
| www.margaritaengle.com | Margarita Engle | @margaritapoet | @engle.margarita |
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