Anika Fajardo

Anika Fajardo is the author of The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore, an International Latino Book Award Gold Medal winner, winner of the Friends of American Writers Literature Award, and finalist for the 2026 Minnesota Book Award. She is also the author of Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family, the award-winning middle-grade novels What If a Fish and Meet Me Halfway, as well as the forthcoming YA novel Waiting on a Miracle: A Twisted Tale. Born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota, she currently lives with her family in Minneapolis, where she teaches creative writing at Augsburg University’s MFA program. https://www.anikafajardo.com