What's Your Story To The World Gonna Be?

Bio (Short Version):

Filmmaker, playwright, and poet e.E. Charlton-Trujillo is a bestselling author and a Michael L. Printz Award winner. They have written many books for teens and children. Some of their notable work includes the Fat Angie trilogy, The Collectors: Stories and the Lupe Lopez picture book series Off the page, Trujillo dedicates time to their co-founded nonprofit Never Counted Out or traveling to speak with youth and educators about the power and possibility of storytelling.​

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Bio (Medium-ish Version):

Author, filmmaker and youth literacy activist e.E. Charlton-Trujillo is the recipient of the prestigious Michael L. Printz Award for The Collectors. Trujillo has written several award-winning books for teens and children, most notably the Fat Angie series, an ALA Stonewall Award Winner, and Prizefighter en Mi Casa, a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner. Their Lupe Lopez: Rock Star series, co-authored with NYT Bestseller Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by award-winning illustrator Joe Cepeda, has received a number of accolades such as the International Latino Book Award, Junior Library Guild Gold and Bank Street Best Spanish Book. A Girl Can Build Anything also written with Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Keisha Morris was a National Science Teacher Association Winner. Their most recent work is Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rivals and No Brain The Same: Neurodivergent Young Activist Shaping The World. e.E. is the co-founder of the youth literacy nonprofit Never Counted Out that supports access to books and creative mentorship. Trujillo is also a proud member of the Las Musas collective and the Texas Institute of Letters. Their forthcoming first of three books with Reycraft will be The Ghost Track Kids. Followed by Boom Tica Tock!, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Molly Mendoza, published by Allida an imprint of HarperCollins. 

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The Unofficial Bio:

Mathis, Texas population 5,034 is where I picked up a Kodak 110 camera and a #2 pencil at four years old. As a kid, I sensed story all around me -- in conversations at the Dairy Queen over Belt Buster burgers or between GED classes at my adopted dad's adult education program. Story was everywhere, and I hoped that maybe it was in me too.

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I've lived in Belgium and on the East Coast, West Coast, in the South and right down the middle of America.  I've spoken at nearly every major book festival in the U.S. with some of the most brilliant, political and inspiring people. I was a Madrina with Las Musas in 2021 and I'm honored to say that my mentee's work became the lauded middle grade novel Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice. #LiftPeopleUp

I've directed and produced films, music videos and seen a world I never imagined growing up in that tiny Texas tow. I never forgot where I came from, the struggles I faced, and the work it took to find my own voice. 

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