Guadalupe García McCall was raised in Eagle Pass, Texas. Guadalupe is the award-winning author of several young adult novels, some short stories for adults, and many children's poems. Guadalupe has received the Prestigious Pura Belpré Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, among many other accolades. As an educator, Guadalupe taught K-12 in San Antonio, Texas for decades before she moved to the Pacific Northwest to teach undergraduate courses at George Fox University. She is now a full-time author/part-time educator and lives with her husband in South Texas, where she keeps close ties with family and friends. Find her online at ggmccall.com.