Anita Ferguson

Anita Perez Ferguson is a two time winner of the SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE YA Writers award. She delights students and teaches with her inspiring bilingual book discussions. She was named Featured Author for November 2022 by Books Shelf.com. Anita leads excellent sessions, Sharing Our Stories, in residential senior's facilities. Her fiction brings to life the voices of California inhabitants living 200 years ago. Her non-fiction promotes the voices of under-represented communities in the twenty-first century. This earned her the 2014 Lacayo Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute. She is an Advisor and Former Chair for the InterAmerican Foundation and a Visiting Lecturer for the Council for Independent Colleges. She enjoys living and writing on the Pacific coast.