Pablo Cartaya

PABLO CARTAYA is an award-winning author, speaker, educator, (and occasional actor). He is the author of the acclaimed novels: The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish, Each Tiny Spark, and the forthcoming The Last Beekeeper. His novels have received honors from the American Library Association Youth Media Awards and included on over thirty state award lists. Pablo holds a BA in English from Loyola Marymount University and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is currently a panelist for the 2021 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature category as well as lead faculty at Sierra Nevada University’s MFA program. He lives in Miami with his family and calls Cuban-American his cultura.