Aida Salazar (2023)
Author, arts activist, and
translator Aida Salazar was born in Mexico and grew up in a
family of seven children in Southeast Los Angeles. Her fiction
and nonfiction writings for adults and children explore issues of
identity and social justice. Salazar is the author of the
critically acclaimed middle grade verse novels, The Moon Within
(International Latino Book Award Winner) and 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).
Salazar’s most recent novel, A Seed in the Sun, was released in 2022. Her other works include the picture book anthology, In the Spirit of a Dream: 13 Stories of Immigrants of Color; the forthcoming bio picture book Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter (Spring, 2023) and the anthology Calling the Moon: Period Stories by BIPOC Authors (Spring, 2023). Aida is a founding member of LAS MUSAS – a Latinx kidlit author collective. Her story, By the Light of the Moon, was adapted into a ballet production by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland, CA.
