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When she isn’t working on her next novel, she’s planning a new adventure. Zoraida was born in Ecuador and raised in Queens, New York. She is the co-host of the podcast Deadline City with Dhonielle Clayton.

Her debut middle grade novel is The Way to Rio Luna.

She is the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Vampires Never Get Old. Her short fiction has appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark, Come on In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home, and Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft. When she isn’t working on Zoraida Córdova is the author of many fantasy novels for kids and teens, including the award-winning Brooklyn Brujas series, Incendiary, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: A Crash of Fate. You learn your voice with every draft you write.Zoraida Córdova is the author of many fantasy novels for kids and teens, including the award-winning Brooklyn Brujas series, Incendiary, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: A Crash of Fate. That’s the best way to work on your craft. What advice would you give to aspiring authors? I got to give a guest spot to some characters from my first series, The Vicious Deep.ĥ. It was the scenes when the brujas, the hunters of New York, and the supernatural alliance comes together. What was your favorite part of writing Bruja Born? It would make my travel so much easier!Ĥ. I would absolutely want to be able to teleport. If you could have one magical power, what would it be? The boy she loves or doing the right thing? If faced with the same choice as Lula, what would any of us decide?ģ. Her thoughts are darker and she has a tough choice. Lula’s story was definitely more difficult. How difficult was it to write Lula’s story compared to Alex’s story in Labyrinth Lost? What came next? I didn’t want to mess up Alex’s ending, so the point of view had to change. In book one, Lula went through an Ordeal™. When I wrote Labyrinth Lost I knew that the Mortiz sisters weren’t done telling their stories.

Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova