Natalia Sylvester

Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is the award-winning author of novels for adults and young adults. CHASING THE SUN was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad Magazine, and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME won an International Latino Book Award and the 2019 Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her third novel, RUNNING, was a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection and a 2021 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List selection. Sylvester's most recent YA novel, BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, is a 2023 Pura Belpré Honor Book & a 2023 Schneider Family Honor Book. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Miami and now lives and writes in South Florida.