Federico Erebia is a retired physician, woodworker, author, poet, and illustrator. He received the 2024 Lambda Literary Exceptional New Writer Award.
His debut novel, Pedro & Daniel (Levine Querido 2023), received numerous awards, starred reviews, and other commendations. His work is included in Just YA, an Anthology for grades 7-12.
He is on the SCBWI Impact & Legacy Fund’s steering committee, where he created a grant program for school librarians: In three years, over 1800 books by and/or about marginalized or underrepresented individuals have been sent to 37 schools, reaching over 32,000 students. He is on the board of Read Your World, where he created The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards: Two annual prizes that recognize exceptional children’s books featuring intersectional protagonists. He is active in the Lambda Literary Writers in Schools program, and several other writing groups.
He and his husband live near Boston, Massachusetts, in the home he re-designed and renovated.
“Writing for children comes with a moral imperative impossible to ignore: Writing inclusively, openly, honestly, and kindly about the realities children experience, including trauma, questions of identity, familial relationships, and more. Erebia’s deeply engaging blend of poetry and prose lovingly and thoughtfully does exactly this, examining experiences as well as neurodiversity, Latine (specifically Mexican) diaspora, and queerness in a way that centers intersectionality and is accessible for readers of all ages.” — Lambda Literary Exceptional New Writer Award judging committee
