Bio
Hilda Eunice Burgos is the author of “Bodega Cats: Picture Purrfect” (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan, 2024), which is the first in a series of three illustrated middle grade books about New York City bodega cats and their human friends. She also wrote the middle grade novels “Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle” (Tu Books/Lee & Low, 2018), which was recognized as an ALA Notable Children’s Book and received two starred reviews, and “Miosotis Flores Never Forgets” (Tu Books/Lee & Low, 2021), recipient of a 2022 Carolyn W. Fields Award Honor. Additionally, she is the author of the picture book “The Cot in the Living Room” (Kokila/Penguin Random House, 2021), which was recognized as an ALA Notable Children’s Book and received a Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor. Hilda is a contributor to the middle grade anthology “Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors” (Candlewick Press, 2023). The daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Hilda grew up in New York City, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. She lives in the Philadelphia area, where she and her husband raised their two grown children and where she works as a lawyer.