Join us at Zenith Bookstore for a meet-and-greet and book signing with author Anika Fajardo.
Anika Fajardo was born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota. Her debut middle-grade novel What If a Fish was awarded the 2021 Minnesota Book Award. Her newest book for young readers, Meet Me Halfway, was a finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Awards. She is also the author of Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family, which was awarded Best Book of 2020 from City Pages and was a finalist for the 2020 Minnesota Book Award, as well as the Disney tie-in novel Encanto: A Tale of Three Sisters. Her work has been included in several anthologies including We Are Meant to Rise: Voices of Justice from Minneapolis to the World, and Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities.