Latinidad & Imagination

Emma Otheguy is the author of the bilingual picture book Martí’s Song for
Freedom (Lee & Low, 2017) about Cuban poet and national hero José Martí, as well as
her newly-published middle-grade novel Silver Meadows Summer (Knopf, 2019). Emma
attended Swarthmore College, where she studied children’s literature with Donna Jo
Napoli and graduated with Honors. Later, she worked in farm-based education, at a
children’s bookstore, and as a Spanish teacher. She holds a Ph.D. in History from New
York University, where she focused on Spain and colonial Latin America.