Emma Otheguy is the author of the middle-grade novels Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene (Knopf, 2022) and Silver Meadows Summer (Knopf, 2019) and the bilingual picture book Martí’s Song for Freedom (Lee & Low, 2017) which received five starred reviews, was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the New York Public Library. She co-authored The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Madre de Aguas of Cuba with Adam Gidwitz (Dutton 2020), and wrote a contribution to the new Carmen Sandiego universe, Secrets of the Silver Lion (HMH 2020).