Priscilla Oliveras

My first language was Spanish, followed quickly by Spanglish as I learned new words and phrases from other kids on the playground. With a Mexican American dad who served in the Navy and a Puerto Rican mom who earned her business degree from the University of Puerto Rico, my life growing up featured a wonderful mix of our two Latinx cultures while we moved with the military and made new friends from all walks of life along the way. Kind of what I hope my books bring you–new friends who might have a different background and are fun to spend time with.
I’ve always been a reader—my parents fondly recall how I won a trophy in 2nd grade for reading the most books over the summer.  In high school I wrote a few short stories, and I read my first Harlequin romance while waiting in a hurricane shelter with my parents and siblings in the Florida Keys. True story: When I started complaining about being bored, my papi—yes, my dad, that’s not a typo—handed me one of his Harlequin romance novels...