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Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the critically acclaimed middle-grade verse novels The Moon Within and Land of the Cranes. Her other books include the picture book anthology In the Spirit of a Dream- 13 Stories of Immigrants of Color (Orchard Books), the picture book biography Jovita Wore Pants- The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter (Scholastic Press), the middle-grade novel A Seed in the Sun (Dial), and the middle-grade anthology My New Gift- 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors (Candlewick). Aida is a founding member of LAS MUSAS-a Latinx kidlit debut author collective. Her story ""By the Light of the Moon"" was adapted into a ballet production by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland, California. Caribay Marquina Benavides is an artist from Merida, Venezuela, and is currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a graphic designer and illustrator whose art is influenced by a nostalgia for the nature of her homeland. Caribay's work spans from commercial to editorial illustration, designing for clients all around the world.
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