Ann Dávila Cardinal
Ann Dávila Cardinal is a two-time International Latino Book Award winning novelist and aging tattooed punk. Her first young adult horror novel, Five Midnights , was released in 2019, its sequel, Category Five, in 2020, and her horror rom-com, Breakup From Hell , in January of 2023. Her adult debut, the novel The Storyteller's Death , was released by Sourcebooks in 2022, and her next magical realist adult novel, We Need No Wings , will be coming on September 10, 2024. Ann's middle grade and...See more
Ann Dávila Cardinal is a two-time International Latino Book Award winning novelist and aging tattooed punk. Her first young adult horror novel, Five Midnights , was released in 2019, its sequel, Category Five, in 2020, and her horror rom-com, Breakup From Hell , in January of 2023. Her adult debut, the novel The Storyteller's Death , was released by Sourcebooks in 2022, and her next magical realist adult novel, We Need No Wings , will be coming on September 10, 2024. Ann's middle grade and nonfiction debut, Hispanic Star: Bad Bunny , releases on September 3, 2024, and her young adult horror comedy, You've Awoken Her , in summer 2025. Five Midnights won an AudioFile Earphones Award, an International Latino Book Award (2020), and was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award. Category Five was a finalist for the 2021 International Latino Book Award. The Storyteller's Deat h was a finalist for the Vermont Book Award and won gold in the popular fiction category of the International Latino Book Awards, 2023. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Our Shadows Have Claws (2022), Other Terrors : An Inclusive Anthology (2022), Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic (2020); and the forthcoming alternate World War II horror anthology, Combat Monsters. See less