Anika Fajardo is the award-winning author of What If a Fish, Meet Me Halfway, and Magical Realism for Non-Believers. She is also the author of Encanto: A Tale of Three Sisters, the middle-grade movie tie-in novel. With a Masters in Library Science, Anika is a former librarian and also the founder of the author collective MN BIPOC Kidlit Creators. When she’s not writing, find her teaching at Augsburg University’s MFA program or interviewing authors on her podcast Gobblefunking with Words. Anika lives with her family in Minneapolis.
