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Cynthia Pelayo
This 2021, Cynthia Pelayo is mentoring Adult
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Cynthia Pelayo
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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo is a two-time Bram Stoker Awards® nominated poet and author. Her works have also been nominated for an Elgin Award and International Latino Book Award. She lives in Chicago.

Agent:
Lane Heymont
The Tobias Literary Agency

Other Published Works

Into the Forest and All the Way Through, 2020
Poems of My Night, 2016
The Missing, 2016
Santa Muerte, 2012
Loteria, 2011

Favorite Books

The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges

Years Mentored
2020, 2021
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