Biography
Donna Barba Higuera grew up in a tiny desert town in central California surrounded by agricultural and oil fields. Rather than wrangling dust devils, she’d spend recess squirreled away in the janitor’s closet with a good book. Her favorite hobbies were calling the library’s dial-a-story over and over again, and sneaking into a restricted pioneers’ cemetery to weave her own spooky tales using the crumbling headstone for inspiration.
Donna’s Middle Grade and Picture books reinvent history, folklore, and or her own life experience into compelling storylines. She still dreams in Spanglish.
Donna lives in Washington State with her husband Mark, four kids, three dogs and two one frogs.
Donna is represented by Allison Remcheck at Stimola Literary Studio.
Donna’s debut, Lupe Wong Won’t Dance, a Middle Grade contemporary, will be one of Arthur A. Levine’s new imprint, Levine Querido’s, launch books, released September 8, 2020. Her Mexican boogeyman picture book, El Cucuy is Scared, Too! will be released Spring 2021 with Abrams Kids.
Her Middle Grade Sci-Fi, The Last Cuentista will be released by Levine Querido in Fall 2021.