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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.

Background Information

I studied botany and agronomy before becoming a full time writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Accomplishments

San Diego Book Award, Cintas Fellowship, 2005 Willow Review Poetry Award, and various haiku, tanka, haibun, free verse, and short fiction awards.

Additional Information

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.