Carolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants, she received her BA in creative writing and Spanish language and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and obtained her master's degree in education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her debut novel, Shut Up, This Is Serious, was a Morris Award finalist, an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a California Young Reader’s Medal finalist, and the winner of the Pura Belpré Award. Her sophomore novel, Few Blue Skies, was a Junior Library Gold Standard Selection and the winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature. Her third novel is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2028.