![]() ![]() (The haunted part may or may not be true-she makes stuff up.) She is a Critique-Group-Coordinator for SCBWI-Western Washington and teaches “The Hero’s Journey for Young Authors” to future writers. ![]() ![]() Donna's backyard is a haunted 19th century logging camp. She still dreams in Spanglish.ĭonna lives in Washington State with her family, three dogs and two frogs. It was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and TIME. Her second novel, The Last Cuentista, received the John Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpré Award. Her favorite hobbies were calling dial-a-story over and over again, and sneaking into a restricted cemetery to weave her own spooky tales using the crumbling headstones as inspiration.ĭonna's Young Adult and Middle Grade books feature characters drawn into creepy, situations, melding history, folklore, and or her own life experience into reinvented storylines. Donnas first book, Lupe Wong Wont Dance, won a Sid Fleischman Award for Humor and a Pura Belpré Honor. As a child, rather than dealing with the regular dust devils, she preferred spending recess squirreled away in the janitor’s closet with a good book. Donna grew up in central California surrounded by agricultural and oil fields. ![]()
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