Excited to announce that the New York Public Library has picked SIX of my projects for their Best Books 2021 lists! For teens, The Witch Owl Parliament (illustrated by Raúl the Third). For kids, My Two Border Towns and Mis dos pueblos fronterizos (illustrated by Erika Meza), El ascenso del…
School Library Journal has selected two books of mine for inclusion on their lists of Best Books of the year. My Two Border Towns (illustrated by Erika Meza) is on the Best Picture Books List. My translation and expansion of María García Esperón’s The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the…
In conjunction with Estudio Tlalli, I am establishing THE PATH GRANT, which will award annual $2500 prizes to new and emerging BIPOC women writers of speculative fiction. To fund the grant, I am donating all of my royalties from my space opera quartet THE PATH (The Blue-Spangled Blue, The Deepest…
So delighted to see Rise of the Halfling King (illustrated by Charlene Bowles) on Kirkus’s list of Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of 2020!
I was delighted to learn that They Call Me Güero has been selected as a 2020-2021 nominee for the South Carolina Children’s Book Award.
At the Texas Book Festival, the Texas Library Association (TLA) announced the twenty books that made it onto the curated Bluebonnet List. They Call Me Güero was one of the lucky titles! Each year, 20 books are chosen for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Many schools and libraries around…
My book They Call Me Güero has been awarded a White Raven! That means it’s been selected by the very prestigious International Youth Library Foundation for inclusion in their annual catalogue of recommended titles for international children’s & youth literature: 200 books in 37 languages from 59 countries. They Call…
I’m delighted to announce that They Call Me Güero was selected as one of the National Endowment of the Arts Read Across America titles for middle-grade readers! I’m especially proud and excited to be part of the project’s mission, to “motivate kids to read and celebrate the diversity in their…
I delivered the following speech at the American Librarian Association’s annual conference in Washington, DC, as part of the Pura Belpré Celebración on June 23rd, after accepting the Belpré Author Honor for They Call Me Güero. Soy fronterizo. A child of the borderlands. Home is Donna, Texas, right across the…
The Texas Institute of Letters just announced the winners of its literary prizes. I won both the MG and YA awards (which is the first time in TIL history that a single author has taken them both). They Call Me Güero got the Jean Flynn Award for Best Middle Grade Book Award…
