Kiara Valdez

Editor

First Second Books

@01FirstSecond Editor Extraordinaire | Writer | ✏️STEPPING UP | She/Her | Opinions are mine | Demi-Bi Afro🇩🇴 | #LatinxInPub | Rep’d: @BrittSiess

Kiara Valdez
@dezinpub
Editor
@01FirstSecond Editor Extraordinaire | Writer | ✏️STEPPING UP | She/Her | Opinions are mine | Demi-Bi Afro🇩🇴 | #LatinxInPub | Rep’d: @BrittSiess
3 MSWL
6 AskAgent
Kiara Valdez
@dezinpub
Editor
@01FirstSecond Editor Extraordinaire | Writer | ✏️STEPPING UP | She/Her | Opinions are mine | Demi-Bi Afro🇩🇴 | #LatinxInPub | Rep’d: @BrittSiess
3 MSWL
6 AskAgent

#VampiresVsTheBronx is exactly the creative gentrification story I've been wanting T_T A middle grade GN #mswl of mine for the last 2/3 years has been a contemporary story following a POC character dealing with gentrification in the NYC neighborhood they grew up in.

Kiara Valdez
@dezinpub
Editor
@01FirstSecond Editor Extraordinaire | Writer | ✏️STEPPING UP | She/Her | Opinions are mine | Demi-Bi Afro🇩🇴 | #LatinxInPub | Rep’d: @BrittSiess
3 MSWL
6 AskAgent

My indefinite graphic novel #mswl:
-middle grade story about a kid and their deep relationship with dancing
-middle grade or YA story about a kid juggling two environments, “code switching”, and seeing their beloved neighborhood changing because of gentrification