Aida Salazar is an award-winning author, translator, and arts activist whose work focuses on identity and social justice. Her critically acclaimed books have received a Caldecott Honor, the Americas Award, the Tomas Rivera Children’s Book Award, the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, a Neustadt Award finalist, Jane Addams Peace Honor, among other distinctions. Kirkus Reviews called her “this generation’s Judy Blume.” She lives with her family of artists in Oakland, CA. At Mesa, Aida worked on her creative non-fiction book entitled Meztli Medicine. It is part apothecary's guidebook, part memoir in essays, part poetry collection centered on healing practices from the Meso American Indigenous traditions of her ancestry. You can learn more about Aida here.