![]() ![]() Tehlor strives to create stories which showcase the importance of community, radical inclusion, and abolitionist values. Their highly anticipated adult debut, SAMMY ESPINOZA’S LAST REVIEW, will be available from Ballantine Bantam Dell in the summer of 2023. ![]() It is currently in development at Disney as a television series to be produced by Eva Longoria. Her short fiction has appeared in the All Out and Toil & Trouble anthologies from Harlequin Teen. It received four starred reviews, and was named Amazon’s best book of 2020 in the 9-12 age range. Tehlor Kay Mejia is an Oregon native and the author of the YA novels We Set the Dark on Fire and We Unleash the Merciless Storm and the middle grade novel Paola Santiago and the Drowned Palace. ![]() ![]() Tehlor’s debut middle grade novel, PAOLA SANTIAGO AND THE RIVER OF TEARS, was published by the Rick Riordan Presents imprint at Disney/Hyperion. It has been featured on Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and O by Oprah Magazine’s best books lists, and was a 2019 book of the year selection by Kirkus and School Library Journal. Their debut young adult novel, WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE, received six starred reviews, as well as the Oregon Spirit Book Award for debut fiction, and the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award runner up honor for debut speculative fiction. When Tehlors not writing, you can find them plucking the guitar, stealing rosemary sprigs from overgrown gardens, or trying to make the perfect vegan tamale. TEHLOR KAY MEJIA is a bestselling and award winning author of young adult and middle grade fiction. Tehlor Kay Mejia is an Oregon native in love with the alpine meadows and evergreen forests of their home state, where they live with their daughter. ![]()
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