JONNY GARZA VILLA (they/them) is an author of contemporary young adult literature with characters and settings inspired by their own Tejane, Chicane, and queer identities, including the Pura Belpré Honor Book Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun and Ander & Santi Were Here, a Bookshop.org Best YA of 2023 selection. Whatever the storyline, Garza Villa ultimately hopes Latines, and, more specifically, queer Mexican American young people, will feel seen in their writing. When not writing, they enjoy reading, playing Dungeons & Dragons, visiting taquerías, listening to Selena, and caring for their many cacti children. They live in San Antonio, Texas.