![]() She wrote two more novels before writing the novel that ultimately made her able to get literary representation. Selected works Ĭórdova wrote her first query letter to a literary agent when she was 17. Ĭórdova identifies as Latina and is one of the co-founders of the Latinx in Kidlit blog, a website centering fellow Latinx writers. After college, she interned at PMA Literary and Film management, where she first met the person who would become her literary agent. She says that she wrote many unfinished stories in college, accumulating multiple "Part 1s", and completed her first novel at age 19. ![]() ![]() Ĭórdova attended the National Book Foundation’s writing camps in high school, with the help of a supportive teacher, and the Summer Solstice writing conference at Pine Manor college. Impressed by the fact that Rhodes was published when she was 14, Córdova was inspired to start to want to become a writer as well. Her favorite books in high school were In the Forests of the Night and Demon in my View by Amelia Atwater Rhodes, which she first read at age 13. She also writes romance as Zoey Castile.Ĭórdova was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and came to the United States when she was five or six years old. ![]() Zoraida Córdova is an Ecuadorian-American author of children's books and romance, best known for her Brooklyn Brujas series. Young adult fiction, middle grade fiction, romance ![]()
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