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Aya de León
Aya de León teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She is the author of the children's picture book PUFFY: PEOPLE WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY. Kensington Books publishes her award-...view moreAya de León teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She is the author of the children's picture book PUFFY: PEOPLE WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY. Kensington Books publishes her award-winning Justice Hustlers feminist heist series for adults, including SIDE CHICK NATION the first novel published about Hurricane Maria. In 2021 Kensington will publish her first spy novel, about FBI infiltration of an African American eco-racial justice organization. Aya's work has also appeared in Ebony, Writers Digest, Guernica, CrimeReads, VICE, The Root, Catapult and Ploughshares. Aya is at work on a black/Latina spy girl series for teens called GOING DARK. Visit her online at ayadeleon.com, on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, where she writes about race, class, gender, culture and climate actionview less