Darlene P. Campos earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and her BA in Creative Writing with a minor in Medicine & Society studies from the University of Houston. She is the author of young adult novels Behind Mount Rushmore, Summer Camp is Cancelled, and Heaven Isn’t Me as well as the bilingual picture book, Mr. Ray’s Barbershop / La BarberÍa Del Sr. Ray.

Campos has been featured in “Book Riot,” “School Library Journal,” and the radio show “Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say.” When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, exercising, going to museums, and catching up on lost sleep. She is Ecuadorian-American and lives in Houston, TX with her husband, David. Her upcoming middle-grade historical novel The Center of the Earth will be published by Blue Handle and released in 2025.