e.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Mexican American author and filmmaker e.E. Charlton-Trujillo has been called a “force of nature” by Kirkus Reviews. A 2024 Michael L. Printz Award winner for their surrealist, south Texas-infused fiction in The Collectors: Stories, Trujillo’s other award-winning books for teens include Fat Angie, Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution, Fat Angie: Home Coming, Feels Like Home and Prizefighter en Mi Casa. Their co-authored award-winning picture books include A Girl Can Build Anything, and Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules!. Their short fiction “CoCo Chamoy y Chango” appeared in the critically celebrated Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America. Trujillo’s writing has garnered the Stonewall Book Award, International Latino Book Award, Westchester Award, a Bank Street Best Books of The Year and was a Lambda Literary Finalist, among others. Trujillo spends many months of the year speaking to K-12 and university students, educators, and others about the power of story and cultivating it now. A former Madrina for the Las Musas collective, Trujillo is co-founder of the youth literacy nonprofit Never Counted Out. Their latest co-authored picture book is Lupe Lopez: Reading Rock Star!