Aimee Lucido

Aimee Lucido (born October 30, 1990) is an American children's author and crossword puzzle constructor. Her books include Emmy in the Key of Code and Recipe for Disaster (2021).

Early life and education Lucido studied computer science at Brown University and became a software engineer for Facebook and Uber. While working at Uber, she completed a master's degree at Hamline University in literature for children and young adults. In 2019, she left the company to pursue writing full-time.

Career Crosswords Lucido began writing crosswords during college when a group of Brown students wrote all the puzzles for one week in The New York Times. Her debut kicked off the series on Monday, September 13, 2010. Since then, she has had more than 15 more puzzles published in the Times . She has also constructed puzzles for The New Yorker, Scientific American, and the independent outlet AVCX.

Writing Lucido's first book, Emmy in the Key of Code, was published by HarperCollins in 2019. It is a story in verse about a girl at a new school who learns the programming language Java and rediscovers her love of music. Her second book, Recipe for Disaster, followed in 2021, telling the story of a girl, Hannah, who studies to have a bat mitzvah against her parents' wishes. Lucido's picture book Pasta Pasta Lotsa Pasta, about a busy family dinner, and her novel Lucky Penny, about a girl on the day of Rosh Hashanah, were published in 2024.