Amaya Nuñez loves that no one else has her name. She loves her apartment and her busy New York City neighborhood. She loves when her Abuelo visits all the way from Spain. She loves summer trips to Vermont and dinners with her Tía and Tío. But those aren’t su tierra....
Adria Quiñones’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times. Amaya Nuñez: Mi Tierra is her first published work for children and the first part of a trilogy about Amaya, her family, and her friends. A lifelong New Yorker, Adria grew up in Queens and now lives in Washington Heights, where she likes to watch the tugs on the Hudson and the traffic on the George Washington Bridge.
Mrinali Álvarez Astacio is a Puerto Rican illustrator and author. In 2016, she was selected as one of three shortlisted winners in the Beginning, Middle, and End competition by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators-British Isles. Mrinali has also received a “Highly Commended Artwork” award in the Macmillan Prize for Children’s Book Illustration. She holds an MA and a Ph.D. in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University, in the United Kingdom.
