Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the Great State of Texas, born and raised near and along the Gulf Coast, and currently living in San Antonio. They are 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 novels inspired by their own Tejane & Chicane and queer identities including their debut novel and Pura Belpré Honor Book Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun, the Stonewall Honor Book Ander & Santi Were Here, and Stonewall Book Award-winning Canto Contigo. Futbolista is their first New Adult contemporary romance.
2025 Festival Sessions
Texas Institute of Letters Presents: 2025 Youth Literature Award Winners
Saturday, November 8,
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Texas Tent presented by Texas Monthly
Queerly Beloved: LGBTQIA+ Romance Novels
Saturday, November 8,
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Leamos Tent: Latine/Hispanic Authors & Literature in Spanish