e.E. Charlton-Trujillo is a filmmaker and coauthor of Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! as well as the author of the award-winning young-adult novel Fat Angie and its sequels, Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution and Fat Angie: Homecoming. They live in Texas.


Pat Zietlow Miller is a coauthor of Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! and the author of the New York Times best-selling Be Kind, illustrated by Jen Hill, and My Brother the Duck, illustrated by Daniel Wiseman, among many other books for young readers. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Joe Cepeda is an award-winning illustrator of more than thirty books for children, including Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! Born and raised in East Los Angeles, he lives in Southern California.