Juana Martinez-Neal is the author-illustrator of the Caldecott Honor Book Alma and How She Got Her Name. She is the illustrator of two books by Susan Middleton Elya: La Princesa and the Pea, for which she received a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, and La Madre Goose: Nursery Rhymes for Los Niños. More recently, she illustrated Babymoon by Hayley Barrett. Juana Martinez-Neal was born in Lima, Peru, and now lives in Arizona.