Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the Great State of Texas, born and raised near and along the Gulf Coast; a Sagittarius sun, Capricorn everything else; and an award-winning author of contemporary young adult and new adult novels inspired by their own Tejane & Chicane and queer identities including Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun, Ander & Santi Were Here, Canto Contigo, and the forthcoming Futbolista. They live in San Antonio.