I create stuff, mostly for kids. I'm inspired by oceans, kraken, ghost crabs, robots, and more.
I wrote and made art growing up in Venezuela and continued to find creative outlets while working at my first career in environmental law. I was lucky to do what I loved, protecting the oceans at the U.S. Department of Justice and the non-profit group Oceana. Now I'm even luckier, spinning stories for kids.
My picture book, A MORNING WITH GRANDPA, illustrated by Christina Forshay (Lee and Low Books 2016) was the 2013 New Voices Award Winner by Lee and Low Books. I also write middle grade contemporary and science fiction. My creative nonfiction essay, "Your Life in Airplane Rides" was published in Potomac Review, Spring 2018 issue. I'm represented by Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
I blog at Sylvia Liu Land and help run the kid lit resource website Kidlit411, named by Writer's Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers three years in a row.
I live in coastal Virginia with my husband, two daughters, and a hypo-allergenic cat, and volunteer with the Virginia Aquarium's Stranding Center helping rehabilitate sea turtles.
I wrote and made art growing up in Venezuela and continued to find creative outlets while working at my first career in environmental law. I was lucky to do what I loved, protecting the oceans at the U.S. Department of Justice and the non-profit group Oceana. Now I'm even luckier, spinning stories for kids.
My picture book, A MORNING WITH GRANDPA, illustrated by Christina Forshay (Lee and Low Books 2016) was the 2013 New Voices Award Winner by Lee and Low Books. I also write middle grade contemporary and science fiction. My creative nonfiction essay, "Your Life in Airplane Rides" was published in Potomac Review, Spring 2018 issue. I'm represented by Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
I blog at Sylvia Liu Land and help run the kid lit resource website Kidlit411, named by Writer's Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers three years in a row.
I live in coastal Virginia with my husband, two daughters, and a hypo-allergenic cat, and volunteer with the Virginia Aquarium's Stranding Center helping rehabilitate sea turtles.
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