Elle Gonzalez Rose is an award-winning producer and author from New York who’s better at writing love stories about short, queer, Latinas than she is at writing bios. Her work has received starred reviews from Kirkus, the Bulletin, and School Library Journal, as well as an International Latino Book Award. Her latest novel, I DIDN’T DO IT, releases with Bloomsbury in July 2026.

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