Meg Medina is the Library of Congress’s 2023–2024 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She is the author of the Pura Belpré Author Award–winning young adult novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass and the decorated young adult novel Burn Baby Burn, as well as the Newbery Medal winner Merci Suárez Changes Gears, which was also a Kirkus Prize finalist, and its sequels, Merci Suárez Can’t Dance and Merci Suárez Plays It Cool, in addition to several other award-winning picture books. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Meg Medina lives in Richmond, Virginia.
