CMD Welcomes Leonarda Carranza

Leonarda Carranza

Leonarda Carranza is the winner of Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing in the Margins contest, was shortlisted for PRISM International’s short forms contest, and won Room’s 2018 short forms contest.

We are thrilled to welcome Leonarda Carranza to CookeMcDermid!

Leonarda Carranza was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. She currently resides in Brampton, Ontario, part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. She holds a PhD in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto.

She is the winner of Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing in the Margins contest, was shortlisted for PRISM International’s short forms contest, and won Room’s 2018 short forms contest. She co-edited, with Ayelet Tsabari and Eufemia Fantetti, the anthology TONGUES: ON LONGING AND BELONGING THROUGH LANGUAGE. Her picture book, ABUELITA & ME, won a 2022 International Latino Book Award, was nominated for a Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award, was a Kirkus Review Best Book of 2022 and was listed a Best Books for Kids & Teens by the Canadian Children’s Books Centre.

Her second picture book, CATCH THAT HATE, will be published by Annick Press in 2024.

Leonarda is represented by Rachel Letofsky.