Alex Temblador is a Mixed Latinx award-winning author whose debut novel, Secrets of the Casa Rosada, received numerous industry accolades including Kirkus Reviews' Best of YA Books 2018 and the 2019 NACCS Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award. She is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, and a travel, arts, and culture writer with pieces appearing in Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Architectural Digest, among many other publications. She lives near Dallas, Texas. Visit her website at AlexTemblador.com.