Gloria Amescua

Gloria Amescua is an educator, poet, and children's book writer.  She was awarded Lee & Low's New Voices Honor Award and was named a finalist for the Austin SCBWI Cynthia Leitich Smith Mentorship Award and We Need Diverse Books' Mentorship program.  A native and current Austinite, Gloria received both her B.A. and M. Ed. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.  This is her first picture book.

From the dust jacket of Child of the Flower-Song People