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] 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.