Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American poet and novelist. Her award-winning works include “Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal,” “The Lightning Dreamer,” “Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist,” “The Wild Book,” and “The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom,” which received a Newbery Honor. Engle has received the Américas Award and the Pura Belpré Medal multiple times. Her works have been published in many countries.