Cynthia Pelayo

About the Author

Cynthia Pelayo is a USA Today bestselling, Bram Stoker Award–winning, and International Latino Book Award–winning author and poet—the first Latina and the first Puerto Rican to win the Bram Stoker Award. She writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of Lotería, Children of Chicago, The Shoemaker’s Magician, Forgotten Sisters, Vanishing Daughters,It Came From Neverland, and is the editor of Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror. She lives in Chicago with her family.