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MEDIA KIT
PRESS CONTACTS:
For BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN and RUNNING:
John Sellers, john.sellers@harpercollins.com
For CHASING THE SUN or EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME:
Kristin Lunghamer, krislung@amazon.com
Photos, bios and cover images are below.
Photo credit: Eric Sylvester | Download hi-res image
Long Bio:
Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is an award-winning writer of novels, essays, and poetry. 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 debut YA novel, RUNNING, was a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection and her sophomore YA, BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, is a 2023 Pura Belpré Award honor book and a Schneider Family Award honor book. Her first picture book, A MALETA FULL OF TREASURES, illustrated by Juana Medina, will be out in 2024 from Penguin Random House. Sylvester's essays have appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Latina magazine, and McSweeney’s Publishing, and have been widely anthologized. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Miami and now lives in South Florida.
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Short Bio:
Natalia Sylvester is the Pura Belpré- and Schneider Family-honor winning author of the young adult novel BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, and the award-winning author of the young adult novel RUNNING and the adult novels EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME and CHASING THE SUN. Her first picture book, A MALETA FULL OF TREASURES, illustrated by Juana Medina, will be out in 2024 from Penguin Random House. nataliasylvester.com | Twitter/Instagram: @nataliasylv.
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Image description: a book cover for BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN. Illustrated art of a brown-haired, light brown-skinned teen diving into a pool. She's wearing a pink two-piece suit & she has a long scar along her thigh & a smaller one over her pelvic bone. The water is blue & pink from the light & her shadow is mermaid-shaped against the pool floor
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Image description: a book cover for RUNNING with illustrated art of a brown-haired, light brown skinned teen with her back facing the cover. She's holding a protest sign that says NOW! and there's red, white, and blue confetti on the floor.
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Image description: The cover of CHASING THE SUN. The art is a photograph of a street in Lima, Peru seen through a rainbow-colored lens flare.
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