Gabriel Torres, @gabriel.reads on Instagram, is a Queer and Latinx book content creator. When he’s not talking about books or coming up with story ideas, you can find him hosting his bookish podcast; Try Reading with Gabriel Torres! It’s a bi-weekly podcast that features a new guest each episode from somewhere within the book world. As an avid reader and book podcast host, Gabriel is always looking to uplift LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC voices and stories.

Anna Meriano is the author of the Love Sugar Magic series, This Is How We Fly, and It Sounds Like This. She works as a writing teacher and tutor in her hometown of Houston. Anna likes reading, knitting, and playing full-contact quadball. Her work can also be found in the anthologies Up All Night, Living Beyond Borders, and Game On.

Lio Min writes about music, magic, and sadness at the nexus of queer youth culture and metamorphic Asia America. Their culture reporting and fiction have appeared in The FADER, the Asian American Writers Workshop, Nylon, and many other outlets. They live in California.

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 author of contemporary young adult novels inspired by their own Tejane & Chicane and queer identities including their debut novel Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun, a Pura Belpré Honor Book, a Finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters' Jean Flynn Award for Best Young Adult Book, and a Kirkus Best YA Fiction of 2021 selection, Ander & Santi Were Here, a Barnes & Noble YA Book Club selection, and Canto Contigo, expected 2024.