NEWS
2026 – Mayra’s work-in-progress Little Skeletons, a middle-grade historical fantasy, has been shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society Competition!
2025 Mayra has signed with Jolene Haley at the Donald Maass Literary Agency.
2025 – Mayra’s middle-grade historical Caribbean gothic horror, Violeta’s Adventures in Doll-Land was shortlisted for the Searchlight Awards!
2024 – Mayra’s middle-grade historical Caribbean gothic horror, Violeta’s Adventures in Doll-Land has was shortlisted for the I Am in Print Awards!
2024 – Mayra’s middle-grade historical Caribbean gothic horror, Violeta’s Adventures in Doll-Land has won a Historical Novel Society Honorable Mention Award!
2022 – Mayra is proud to announce that she is the recipient of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ “Work of Outstanding Progress” (WOOP) Grant for her young adult Caribbean gothic novel Penumbra.
2022 – Mayra is thrilled to announce that she is now the Assistant Regional Advisor for SCBWI Benelux.