Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet whose books, often in verse for children, young adults and adults, draw on her Cuban heritage and knowledge of nature. She was the first Latino awarded a Newbery Honor, in 2009, for The Surrender Tree, and she served as the sixth Young People's Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019. Her titles include All the Way to Havana and Drum Dream Girl, and her 2024 book Wild Dreamers was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.