Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is an educator and the author of several notable and award-winning books for children and young adults. Many of her works reflect her Puerto Rican heritage, and some are written in free verse. Bernier-Grand has also written illustrated biographies of prominent figures including César Chavez, Sonia Sotomayor, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Pablo Picasso.

René Colato Laínez is an award-winning Salvadoran author of many bilingual/multicultural picture books for children, as well as a bilingual elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He has said, “My goal as a writer is to produce good multicultural children’s literature, stories where minority children are portrayed in a positive way, where they can see themselves as heroes, and where they can dream and have hopes for the future.”2

Amelia Lau Carling was born in Guatemala, where she grew up as the youngest of six children of Chinese immigrants. Surrounded by family and customers in her parents’ general store, she learned about Chinese, Spanish, and Mayan cultures. After moving to the United States, she became an author of children’s books based on her own childhood experiences. She is a bilingual writer who explores topics that cover the intersection between arts and sciences.

Rigoberto González is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The Book of Ruin published in 2019. His previous poetry book, 2013’s Unpeopled Eden, won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Born in California and raised in Mexico, González has also written ten books of prose, including two bilingual children’s books and a memoir that received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

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