Karleen Pendleton Jiménez

Karleen Pendleton Jiménez is an American-Canadian writer and academic.^[1] She is best known for her 2000 book Are You a Boy or a Girl?, a 2001 Lambda Literary Award finalist which was adapted into the 2008 film Tomboy,^[2] and her 2011 memoir How to Get a Girl Pregnant, a 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalist.^[3]

Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
Born	California
Occupation	Memoirist, academic
Nationality	American-Canadian
Period	2000s-present
Notable works	Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant

Originally from Los Angeles, California, she is currently a full professor in the School of Education at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.^[4] In addition to her literary work, she also co-edited, with Isabel Killoran, the academic anthology Unleashing the Unpopular: Talking About Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Education.

Works

• Are You a Boy or a Girl? (2000, ISBN 1-896781-14-4)
• Unleashing the Unpopular (2009, ISBN 978-0871731715)
• How to Get a Girl Pregnant (2011, ISBN 978-1926639406)
• Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes: Confessions from the Classroom (2016, ISBN 978-1433126949)
• The Street Belongs to Us (2021, ISBN 9781551528403)