6 Facts

• I am a second-generation Colombian-American. I am greatly inspired by immigration stories like that of my mother, and have a deep desire to promote diversity in my writing. 

• I had brain surgery in 2010, and the experience made me both fiercely determined and a big believer in silver linings. 

• I am a lover of nature. When I was a child, one of my best friends was a stick named Psyche, who harnessed all the power of the trees.  

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• I channeled my love for the geriatric population into a career as a Speech-Language Pathologist in skilled nursing facilities. I have had the honor of meeting many spectacular people, and their stories have become part of me.

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• I am the mother of a beautiful and spunky child. My daughter is the happiest  creature you could ever meet, and makes me belly laugh/giggle snort at least twice per day.  

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• Most of my picture book stories include a morsel (or more) of these truths. After all, in the wise words of Virginia Woolf: