Trinidad-born and US-based writer, translator and interpreter, Danielle Y. C. McClean is the author of the Secrets of Oscuros series. Her debut novel, Secrets of Oscuros: The Protectors’ Pledge (CaribbeanReads 2017, illustrator: Lorena Soriano), placed third in the 2016 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, and its sequel, Secrets of Oscuros: The Whisperer’s Warning (CaribbeanReads 2022, illustrator: Rachel Moss) was the winning title for the 2022 Bocas Lit Fest Children’s Book Prize. In 2023, Danielle won the Kate Dopirak Craft & Community Award for her middle grade manuscript Soraya Unboxed. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and two children and is the current Midsouth Knoxville-region Meetup Director for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).