About the Author
Cynthia Pelayo is a USA Today bestselling, Bram Stoker Award–winning, and International Latino Book Award–winning author and poet—the first Latina and the first Puerto Rican to win the Bram Stoker Award. She writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of Lotería, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, The Shoemaker’s Magician, Forgotten Sisters, Vanishing Daughters, and It Came From Neverland, as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems.