Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, memoirs, and picture books, including The Surrender Tree, Enchanted Air, Drum Dream Girl, and Dancing Hands. Awards include a Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré, Golden Kite, Walter, Jane Addams, and NSK Neustadt , among others. Margarita served as the 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate.
Her most recent books include Your Heart, My Sky and A Song of Frutas. 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 husband.
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Series
Books:Your Heart, My Sky, April 2021
Love in a Time of Hunger
Hardcover / e-Book
With a Star in My Hand, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Surrender Tree, April 2008
Hardcover
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