Erika Romero
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Erika’s love for writing began as a child, when she drafted stories of time travel and magic and saved them on her own, carefully protected, floppy disk. But it was in college when she realized that she could study and teach children’s and young adult literature as a career. After earning her B.A. and M.A. in English, she taught writing and children’s and YA literature to undergraduate students while earning her PhD.
After completing her PhD, Erika returned to writing stories for children. As the child and grandchild of Cuban immigrants, she hopes to increase Latinx representation in children’s literature through her stories of precocious children and their loving intergenerational families. Erika was a 2024 Round Table mentee and a PBChat 2022 mentee. She has an academic article published in the journal, Transformative Works and Cultures, as well as a chapter in the edited collection, Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms. Erika is represented by Sheila Fernley. |
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