e.E. Charlton-Trujillo

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and 2024 Michael L. Printz Award winner for their short fiction in The Collectors: Stories. Charlton-Trujillo has written several books for teens and children, notably the Fat Angie series, an ALA Stonewall Award Winner and Lambda Literary Finalist, and Prizefighter en Mi Casa, a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner. Their Lupe Lopez picture book series, co-authored with NYT Bestseller Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, garnered the International Latino Book Award, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard and was a Bank Street Best Spanish Book. A Girl Can Build Anything also co-authored with Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Keisha Morris, was a NSTA Best STEM Book Winner.

One of the most dynamic and inspiring speakers today, e.E. spends much of their time in schools and libraries celebrating the power and possibility of young people's stories. An MFA and NEH lecturer, Trujillo is also the co-founder of the youth literacy nonprofit Never Counted Out.