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Zoraida Córdova is an Ecuadorian-American author of children's books and romance, best known for her Brooklyn Brujas series. She also writes romance as Zoey Castile.

Córdova was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and came to the United States when she was five or six years old. English is her second language.

She grew up in Hollis, Queens. Her favorite books in high school were In the Forests of the Night and Demon in my View by Amelia Atwater Rhodes, which she first read 13. Impressed by the fact that Rhodes was published when she was 14, Córdova was inspired to start to want to become a writer as well.

Córdova attended the National Book Foundation’s writing camps in high school, with the help of a supportive teacher, and the Summer Solstice writing conference at Pine Manor college.