Tara and the Towering Wave

About Cristina OxtraFrancesca Ficorilli

Cristina Oxtra is a Filipino American author. She earned an MFA in creative writing for children and young adults at Hamline University. She received the 2019–2020 Mirrors & Windows Fellowship for Indigenous writers and writers of color at the Loft Literary Center. She lives in Minnesota, where she enjoys spending time with family, cooking, baking, martial arts, supernatural and paranormal TV shows, and comic cons. Her website is at www.cristinaoxtra.com. Francesca Ficorilli was born and lives in Rome, Italy. Francesca knew that she wanted to be an artist since she was a child. She was encouraged by ther love for animation and her mother's passion for fine arts, which she passed down to Francesca. After earning a degree in animation, she started workign as a freelance animator and illustrator. She finds inspirations for her illustrations in every corner of the world.