Zoraida Córdova

Zoraida Córdova is the author of many fantasy novels for kids and teens, most recently the award-winning *Brooklyn Brujas* series, *Incendiary*, and *Star Wars: A Crash of Fate*. Her short fiction has appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology *Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View*, *Come on In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home*, and *Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft*. She is the co-editor of *Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite*. Her debut middle grade novel is *The Way to Rio Luna*. She is the co-host of the podcast Deadline City with Dhonielle Clayton. Zoraida was born in Ecuador and raised in Queens, New York. When she isn’t working on her next novel, she’s planning a new adventure.

She also writes romance as Zoey Castile.

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