Tracey Baptiste is the New York Times bestselling author of Minecraft: The Crash , as well as the creepy Caribbean series The Jumbies.
She is also the illustrator of My Hair Is Magic and Rise! , a picture book biography about Maya Angelou..
Figurative and full of symbolism, her work is influenced by both folk artists of the Deep South and contemporary masters like Frida Kahlo and Marc Chagall.
Tonya Engel is an artist who has had studios in New York, Paris, Austin, and Houston, where she lives now.
A former elementary school teacher, Tracey does numerous author visits, and is on the faculty at Lesley University\'s Creative Writing MFA program.
She\'s also written the contemporary young adult novel Angel\'s Grace and nine nonfiction books for kids in elementary through high school.
Tracey Baptiste is the New York Times bestselling author of Minecraft: The Crash , as well as the creepy Caribbean series The Jumbies
