Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, Texas, the Sun City. Zeke was an Illustrator Honoree for the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Pura Belpré Award for My Papi Has a Motorcycle, and he received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for his illustrations in Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. He also illustrated the New York Times bestseller Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel. He is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in Northwest Arkansas.
Sundust, his author-illustrator debut, is a love poem to desert culture and people and is a 2026 Caldecott Honor title.
