<div dir="ltr">FYI<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Mitra, Cristina (LIB)</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Cristina.Mitra@sfpl.org">Cristina.Mitra@sfpl.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 2:35 PM<br>Subject: [REFORMANET] Aida Salazar + Natalia Sylvester - MG/YA Lit tomorrow on SFPL YouTube<br>To: <a href="mailto:REFORMANet@googlegroups.com">REFORMANet@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:REFORMANet@googlegroups.com">REFORMANet@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Sharing this very special middle-grade and YA author event tomorrow hosted by San Francisco Public Library as the final event of our VIVA series celebrating Latino Hispanic Heritage Month.</p>
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Join Latinx authors Aida Salazar and Natalia Sylvester, members of the author collective Las Musas, as they share their latest and upcoming works, timely novels about a family caged in a detention camp by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to a presidential
election for Cuban-American political family. This conversation will be great for older youth and adults alike. </p>
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10/20, 5PM,<span> </span><strong><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/yzwUy2g9sEQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">SFPL YouTube</a></span></strong></p>
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<b>Aida Salazar</b> is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the critically acclaimed middle grade verse novels,<span> </span><em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The
Moon Within</span></em><span> </span>(International Latino Book Award) and the just released<em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span>Land of the Cranes</span></em>.</p>
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<b>Natalia Sylvester</b> is the author of two novels for adults,<span> </span><em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chasing the Sun<span> </span></span></em>and<span> </span><em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Everyone
Knows You Go Home</span></em>, which won an International Latino Book Award.<span> </span><em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Running</span></em>, her debut novel for young adults, is a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection. Born in
Lima, Peru, Sylvester grew up in Florida and Texas and received a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami.</p>
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Connect with Aida Salazar -<span> </span><a href="http://www.aidasalazar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">aidasalazar.com</a><span> </span>| Twitter: @mimawrites<br>
Connect with Natalia Sylvester -<span> </span><a href="http://nataliasylvester.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">nataliasylvester.com</a><span> </span>| Twitter/Instagram: @nataliasylv<br>
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Las Musas Books</b> is the first collective of women and non-binary (identifying on the female spectrum) Latinx middle-grade (MG), picture book (PB) and young adult (YA) authors to come together in an effort to support and amplify each other’s debut or sophomore
novels in US children’s literature. Las Musas represent Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Uruguay, just to name a few. Learn more about their work and meet new authors at<span> </span><a href="https://www.lasmusasbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">https://www.lasmusasbooks.com</a>.</p>
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