Aída Salazar

Aida Salazar, author of “Land of the Cranes” (2020 Scholastic, MG), is an arts activist and award-winning author of the middle grade verse novel “The Moon Within” (an International Latino Book Award Winner) and the bio picture book “Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Revolutionary Fighter” (Spring 2021). She is slated to co-edit, with Yamile Saied Méndez, “Calling the Moon,” a middle grade anthology on menstruation by writers of color (Candlewick Press 2022). She is a founding member of Las Musas, a Latinx kidlit debut author collective.