Carmen Ferreiro Esteban

Carmen Ferreiro Esteban was born in Galicia (Northern Spain) and went to college in Madrid, where she finished her Ph.D. in Biology.   For the next ten years, Carmen worked as a researcher both in Madrid and at the University of Davis in northern California.

Carmen’s writing career started when she came to live in Pennsylvania in the 1990s. Following her first sale, a magazine article on latex allergy, Carmen published four books for Chelsea House (Facts on File): Heroin, Ritalin, Mad Cow Disease, and Lung Cancer.

As a fiction writer, Carmen has published short stories in the literary magazine Errata, winning second prize in the 2004 Bucks County Writers Workshop Summer Contest.

Her Young Adult novel Two Moon Princess, was published in October 2007 by Tanglewood Press. It was recognized with the bronze award in the Book of the Year Contest by the ForeWord Magazine in the Juvenile fiction category.   Its sequel, The King in the Stone, has been accepted for publication by Tanglewood Press.

He’s presently querying agents with her third novel while writing a paranormal version of her life, you can read at http://carmenferreiroesteban.wordpress.com/