Mikaela Lucido is a Filipina-Canadian storyteller. Her debut novel, Danica Dela Torre, Certified Sleuth, is the first in a middle-grade mystery series of heart and hauntings. Her words have been featured in Ricepaper Magazine, Living Hyphen, Layered Butter, Augur Magazine, Cambio & Co., Goalcast, Savant-Garde Literary Magazine, S.M. Beiko’s Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures, and more. She graduated with an Honours B.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing at Sheridan College, where she was the 2021 recipient of the Ampersand Award. Mikaela resides in Mississauga, on the Treaty and Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and The Huron-Wendat and Wyandot Nations. She is represented by Rachel Letofsky.