Gloria Amescua

Gloria Amescua is an educator, poet, and children’s book writer. She was awarded Lee & Low’s 2016 New Voices Honor Award for her manuscript about Luz Jiménez and was named a finalist for the Austin Chapter Cynthia Leitich Smith Mentorship Award and We Need Diverse Books’ Mentorship program. This is her debut picture book.

Books by Gloria Amescua
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua