Aida Salazar
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About Aida Salazar
Award-winning author, arts activist, and translator Aida Salazar writes for both adults and children, with work centered on identity and social justice. Her acclaimed middle-grade verse novels include The Moon Within (International Latino Book Award Winner), Land of the Cranes (Américas Award, California Library Association Beatty Award, Northern CA Book Award, NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, Jane Addams Peace Honor, International Latino Book Award Honor), and A Seed in the Sun (Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award, ALA RISE Feminist Book Project Top 10 Book, NCTE Notable Poetry/Verse Novel Honor, Jane Addams Peace Award Finalist).
Her additional books include the picture book anthology In the Spirit of a Dream: 13 Stories of Immigrants of Color, the biography picture book Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter, and the anthology Calling the Moon: Period Stories by BIPOC Authors. Aida is also a founding member of LAS MUSAS, a Latinx kidlit author collective. Her story, By the Light of the Moon, was adapted by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance into a ballet and became the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives in Oakland, CA, with her family of artists.