I create stuff, mostly for kids. I'm inspired by aliens, robots, bunnies, cephalopods, 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 am even luckier to write and illustrate 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 speculative and contemporary middle grade fiction. My creative nonfiction essay, "Your Life in Airplane Rides" was published in Potomac Review, Spring 2018 issue. I am represented by Jennifer March Soloway at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
Juried art exhibits include New Waves 2012 at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and the Norfolk Academy Art Show (2010-18). My environmental infographics have been published on The Huffington Post, Oceana, World Wildlife Fund, and other publications.
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 for three years in a row.
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 am even luckier to write and illustrate 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 speculative and contemporary middle grade fiction. My creative nonfiction essay, "Your Life in Airplane Rides" was published in Potomac Review, Spring 2018 issue. I am represented by Jennifer March Soloway at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
Juried art exhibits include New Waves 2012 at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and the Norfolk Academy Art Show (2010-18). My environmental infographics have been published on The Huffington Post, Oceana, World Wildlife Fund, and other publications.
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 for three years in a row.
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