![]() Before starting her writing career, Engle was a tenured professor of agronomy at California Polytechnic University. from Iowa State University in 1977, and nearly completed a doctoral degree in biology from the University of California, Riverside in 1983. ![]() from California State Polytechnic University in 1974, an M.S. As a child, she was introduced to poetry in Spanish, particularly the works of José Martí. Although Engle was born and raised in California, growing up, she spent many summers with her extended family in Cuba. Early life Įngle's father was born in Los Angeles, California and her mother in Trinidad, Cuba. She was nominated by 2019 NSK Prize jury member Lilliam Rivera. On October 9, 2018, Margarita Engle was announced the winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. ![]() She was selected by the Poetry Foundation to serve from 2017 to 2019 as the sixth Young People's Poet Laureate. She became the first Latino awarded a Newbery Honor in 2009 for The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom. Most of Engle's stories are written in verse and are a reflection of her Cuban heritage and her deep appreciation and knowledge of nature. ![]() Margarita Engle (born in Los Angeles, California on September 2, 1951) is a Cuban American poet and author of many award-winning books for children, young adults and adults. ![]()
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