Silvia AcevedoSilvia Acevedo is an award-winning children's book author and co-founder of Fantasy Art Workshop's Illustration Intensive, a week-long illustration workshop. She's worked in New York publishing at Scholastic, literary agency Writers House, and the no-profit Inkluded Academy, which champions diversity in publishing. She also led the Wisconsin chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and served on the board of directors for the Wisconsin Writers Association. Before writing fiction, Silvia spent 25+ years reporting and anchoring news for TV, radio, and newspapers, covering everything from national politics to state-fair-food-on-a-stick. Her latest work, THE HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA (Macmillan), was Amazon's #1 Release in Children's Short Story Collections. Her mythological GOD AWFUL series, featuring GOD AWFUL LOSER, GOD AWFUL THIEF, and GOD AWFUL REBEL, was the winner of the coveted Spark Award for excellence from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Visit her at SilviaAcevedo.com. Read More Read Less