Belen Medina is a children's book author inspired by her Mexican heritage and bicultural upbringing in California's Central Valley. Her debut picture book, Daughter of the Light-Footed People , received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, The Horn Book and School Library Journal , and was praised for its lyrical voice and powerful storytelling. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family, where she lovingly torments her two sons by reading them draft after draft of her stories and they consistently point out her grammar errors. Visit her online at belenmedina.com.