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Ann is a Nuyorican, Vermont-based novelist with an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). She comes from a long line of Puerto Rican writers, including father and son poets Virgilio and José Antonio Dávila, and her cousin, award-winning fiction writer Tere Dávila.

Ann’s first solo novel, a young adult horror novel titled Five Midnights, was released by Tor Teen on June 4, 2019. Five Midnights won the 2020 International Latino Book Award in the category of Best Young Adult Fantasy & Adventure, an AudioFile’s Earphones Award for the audiobook, and was finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. The story continues in Category Five, also from Tor Teen, released on June 2, 2020. Category Five is a 2021 nominee for the same Internation ...more

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	The Storyteller's Death 3.75 avg rating — 11,023 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Midnights (Five Midnights, #1) 3.46 avg rating — 1,399 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Terrors: A Horror Anthology – Terrifying Short Stories by Tananarive Due and BIPOC Writers by Vince A. Liaguno (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rena Mason (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.55 avg rating — 1,283 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories 3.96 avg rating — 1,144 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breakup from Hell: A Witty YA Horror Rom-Com with World-Ending Consequences 3.18 avg rating — 1,323 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Need No Wings 3.76 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You've Awoken Her 3.54 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Category Five (Five Midnights, #2) 3.58 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister Chicas by Lisa Alvarado (Goodreads Author), Ann Hagman Cardinal, Ann Dávila Cardinal (Goodreads Author) 3.30 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear the Dead: A Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“His shadow was a bizarre shape, stretching and pulling like it belonged to someone else.”
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“El Cuco has always been what parents threaten their children with, in order to get them to behave. My theory is that he's a physical manifestation of the very limits of a parent's control over their children. It is he they turn to when they no longer have any influence. And in calling him, they had the power over to him.”
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“Well, it's a metaphorical monster, right? I mean, there's no such thing."
"Oh Lupe, or course there is. I think some people have their own personal monsters.”
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“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
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