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Self-professed “Ivy League homegirl” Sofia Quintero is a writer, producer, activist, educator, and speaker. Born into a working-class Puerto Rican and Dominican family in the Bronx, where she still lives, she holds a BA and an MPA from Columbia University. She also recently earned an MFA in writing and producing television at the TV Writers Studio at Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Sofia is the author of another novel for young readers,
Efrain's Secret,
and she has written several hip-hop novels under the pen name Black Artemis.

When not working on her next young adult novel, Sofia runs an after-school program in the Bronx for a girls'-empowerment organization and is a teaching artist for the National Book Foundation. You can learn more about Sofia and her projects at
sofiaquintero.com
.