Guadalupe Garcia McCall at the 2018 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, US. © 2018 Larry D. Moore. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Guadalupe Garcia McCall is a writer of young adult novels, children’s poems and some adult short stories. She was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and raised in Eagle Pass, a small border town in Texas that serves as the setting for the beginning of her fantasy novel Summer of the Mariposas.
Garcia McCall taught English at primary and high school level in San Antonio, Texas before moving to George Fox University, Oregon to teach undergraduate courses in literature, women’s studies, and creative writing. After publishing her first novel, Under the Mesquite (2011), she won the Pura Belpré Medal and the Tomás Rivera Book Award. Her second novel, Summer of the Mariposas (2012), a retelling of the Odyssey that traverses Texas and Mexico, won the Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award.
Garcia McCall is now a full-time writer and part-time educator, living in South Texas. Fluent in English and Spanish, she has given speeches at many schools, universities and conferences, promoting diverse literature and books inspired by an author’s own experiences.
Sources:
The author's website (accessed: July 21, 2025).
Profile at Poets and Writers (accessed: July 21, 2025).
en.wikipedia.org (accessed: July 21, 2025).
Bio prepared by Alex Guerin, Victoria University of Wellington, alexbguerin@gmail.com
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