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Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of The Poet Slave of Cuba, Skywriting, Singing to Cuba, and other works of prose and poetry.
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I studied botany and agronomy before becoming a full time writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
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Accomplishments
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San Diego Book Award, Cintas Fellowship, 2005 Willow Review Poetry Award, and various haiku, tanka, haibun, free verse, and short fiction awards.
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My new book is The Poet Slave of Cuba (Henry Holt & Co., 2006), a young adult biography-in-poems about the youth of Juan Francisco Manzano, who became a celebrated poet in Cuba during the mid-1800s, while he was still a slave. It is a Junior Library Guild Selection Editor's Choice, and has starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal, as well as great reviews from childrenslit.com and Kirkus.
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