Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the Great State of Texas, a Sagittarius sun, Capricorn everything else, a former very bad baseball player, and a former pretty good drag queen. Jonny is an author of contemporary young adult and new adult novels inspired by their own Tejane & Chicane and queer identities including the Pura Belpré Honor Book Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun, the Stonewall Honor Book and Latino Book Award Winner Ander & Santi Were Here, Canto Contigo, and the forthcoming Futbolista. When not writing, Jonny enjoys reading, playing Dungeons and Dragons (bard main) and Super Smash Bros. (Inkling main), cooking, listening to Selena, and caring for their many plant children. They live in San Antonio.
