From Queens to Award Winning Author with Meg Medina
Meg Medina shares her experience growing up in Queens, her complicated relationship with her mother and how she "failed up" into becoming an award winning author of books featuring Latinos.
Wine & Chisme · Jessica Yañez
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BIO:
Meg Medina is a Newbery award-winning and New York Times best-selling author who writes picture books, as well as middle grade and young adult fiction. Her works have been called “heartbreaking,” “lyrical” and “must haves for every collection.”
When she’s not writing, Meg serves on the Advisory Committee for We Need Diverse Books, the grassroots organization working to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. She also works on community projects that support girls, Latinx youth, and/or literacy. She is a board member of the Library of Congress Literacy Awards, a faculty member of Hamline University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Children’s Literature. Meg lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.