About the Author

826 Valencia is based in San Francisco.

Emma Peoples has been coordinating educational programs to support youth with their creative and expository writing skills at 826 Valencia since 2014.

Carolina De Robertis is the internationally bestselling author of three novels: The Invisible Mountain, Perla, and The Gods of Tango. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages. She has received a Stonewall Book Award, the Italian Rhegium Julii Prize, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors. She is an award-winning translator of Latin American literature, and a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. Carolina is also working on a documentary about black Uruguayan culture, you know, in all her spare time. She lives in Oakland, CA, with her wife and two children.