Claudia Guadalupe Martinez is the award-winning author of The Smell of Old Lady Perfume (Cinco Puntos, 2008), Pig Park (Cinco Puntos, 2014), Not a Bean (Charlesbridge, 2019), Spirit Untamed:The Movie Novel (Little Brown BFYR, 2021), Still Dreaming (Lee and Low, 2022), and Not a Monster (Charlesbridge, 2023).