Rebecca Balcarcel

Rebecca Balcárcel is the author of Shine On, Luz Véliz! and The Other Half of Happy, a Pura Belpré Honor book and ALSC Notable Book. She is also a co-editor of and contributor to the anthology Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities. A Guatemalan-Anglo American, Rebecca has lived in Texas since age ten. She is an Associate Professor of English at Tarrant County College. Rebecca is also YouTube's SixMinuteScholar.