Saturday, 24 February 2018 @3PM-4PM
Please join us on Saturday, 24 February 2018 for a special appearance by award winning author, Alexandra Diaz. Pizza and other refreshments will be provided for attendees to enjoy during her time with us. During this event, Ms. Diaz will be reading excerpts from her book and answering audience questions.
Alexandra Diaz is the award winning children’s book author
of The Only Road which received the Pura Belpré Honor, Américas Awards, and
others. Along with her mother, she translated the book into Spanish, El único
destino. Her other books include Good Girls Don’t Lie (a New Mexico-Arizona
Book Award finalist) and When We Were (formerly titled Of All the Stupid
Things, also a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award finalist as well as a ALA Rainbow
List book), both for young adults.
An overactive imagination had her making up stories at an
early age and led to getting an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa
University. The daughter of Cuban refugees, she is a native Spanish speaker who
currently lives in Santa Fe, NM.
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