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Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the Great State of Texas, born and raised near and along the Gulf Coast and currently lives in San Antonio. They are a Sagittarius sun, Capricorn everything else, a former very bad baseball player, and a former pretty good drag queen.

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Jonny is an award-winning author of contemporary novels inspired by their own Tejane & Chicane and queer identities including, in young adult, their debut novel Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun, Ander & Santi Were Here, and Canto Contigo, and their new adult debut romance Futbolista.

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When not writing, Jonny enjoys reading, playing Dungeons and Dragons (bard main) and Super Smash Bros. (Inkling main), cooking, listening to Selena, caring for their many cacti children, and rewatching their favorite seasons of Dimension20.

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Jonny is a Literary Death Match champion, a member of Las Musas—a collective of traditionally published Latina authors and Latine authors of marginalized genders writing children's and young adult literature—has been a mentor with the Write Team Mentorship Program, SmoochPit, and the Las Musas Hermanas Mentorship, and facilitated workshops with the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Miami Book Festival, and Tin House. They have participated in numerous festivals including the Texas Book Festival, the Latinx KidLit Book Festival, the San Antonio Book Fest, Bronx Book Fest, the Bookmarks Festival of Books & Authors, the Columbus Book Festival, YALLwest and YALLfest.