Margarita Engle is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist born in Pasadena, CA, to a Cuban mother and an American father. Her works have brought to life fascinating characters and history in The Firefly Letters, The Surrender Tree, Wild Dreamers, The Sculptors of Light: Poems About Cuban Women Artists, and more. Engle served as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate, was a professor of agronomy, and lives in California.
