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Tehlor Kay Mejia is a Mexican-American novelist best known for her debut novel We Set the Dark on Fire.

Personal Life
Mejia is a bi-racial, third generation Latina born and raised in Oregon. As as self-proclaimed bruja, she approaches topics such as witchcraft in her work through a personal and historical framework of daily spiritual practice.

Career
Mejia's debut novel We Set the Dark on Fire was published by Katherine Tegen Books in February 2019. It is set in the fictional island nation of Medio where the privileged inland elite can afford two wives for their rich sons while those beyond the wall and closer to the sea suffer from oppression and hunger. The novel follows the story of Daniella "Dani" Vargas, a seventeen-year-old graduate of Medio School For Girls who has been trained to serve as Primera (first wife) to the son of Medio's chief military strategist. Born on the wrong side of the wall, she is blackmailed by revolutionary forces to spy on her new family or risk her and her family's safety.

Young Adult novels
We Set the Dark on Fire Duology
 * 1) We Set the Dark on Fire (Katherine Tegen Books, 2019)
 * 2)  We Unleash the Merciless Storm  (Katherine Tegen Books, 2020)

Children's novels
Paola Santiago
 * 1) Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (Rick Riordan Presents, 2020)

Short stories

 * "Healing Rosa" in All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages, edited by Saundra Mitchell (Harlequin Teen, 2018)
 * "Starsong" in Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft, edited by Tess Sharpe (Harlequin Teen, 2018)