Tracey Hecht is a writer and the creative director of Fabled Films Press. She created The Nocturnals, the critically acclaimed middle-grade and early reader series. The American Booksellers Association chose her first book, The Mysterious Abductions, as a Kids’ Indie Next List pick, and her nonfiction book Nighttime Animals: Awesome Features & Surprising Adaptations received the Children’s Book Council Teacher Favorites Award in 2023. In partnership with the New York Public Library, she created a Read Aloud Writing Program that has since been conducted in hundreds of schools, libraries, and bookstores. She attends Bank Street College, where she is studying to receive a dual master’s degree in childhood general education and special education. Tracey splits her time between New York City and Oquossoc, Maine.

Translator Bio: Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny es una traductora y autora bilingüe galardonada, originaria de Sonora, México. Es profesora asistente en la Maestría en Escritura Creativa de la Universidad de Texas en El Paso, donde imparte cursos de ficción y no ficción. Ha publicado más de una docena de libros en español e inglés, entre ellos la novela juvenil The Everything I Have Lost (Cinco Puntos Press, 2021), traducción de Todo esto es yo, obra ganadora del Premio Nacional de Novela Tamaulipas, en México. Como traductora, se enfoca principalmente en literatura infantil y juvenil.

Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny is a translator and award-winning bilingual author from Sonora, Mexico. As a translator, she focuses primarily on children’s and young adult literature. She is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches fiction and nonfiction. She has published over a dozen books in Spanish and English including the YA novel The Everything I Have Lost (Cinco Puntos Press, 2021)—a translation of Todo esto es yo, which won the National Novel Award in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Kate Liebman is an artist who lives and works in New York City. She graduated from Yale University and has an MFA from Columbia University. Kate contributes to the Brooklyn Rail, and has shown her work at multiple galleries. She grew up in Santa Monica, California.

• Publisher: Fabled Films Press (March 2, 2027)
• Length: 242 pages
• ISBN13: 9781944020965
• Ages: 9 - 12

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