Born in the Boston area to Guatemalan parents, Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels "Borderless," featured on the TODAY show, and "Don't Ask Me Where I'm From." She is also the author of "White Space: Essays on Culture, Race & Writing," which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. She is currently working on two children's picture books – "Sammy and Samuel," and a biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. She is also the editor of "Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education," an International Latino Book Award-winning anthology. An associate professor of creative writing at Framingham State University and faculty member for Salve Regina's Newport MFA program, she has published prose in over a dozen literary journals, including Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and more. She is also a contributor on NPR.