*Nuestra Chispa es Bella* Growing up bilingual and bicultural, I often felt like I was walking between two worlds — the culture I inherited and the country I love. But instead of feeling divided, I grew up believing something deeply: these two worlds don’t compete . They complete me. In my effort to combat the “othering” of nonwhite Americans, I created Maravillosa Maria  as a joyful celebration of what it means to belong to more than one culture. For too long, many of us who