Popo the Xolo (2025), author Paloma Angelina Lopez, and author celebrating Día de Muertos at The Ohio State University Paloma Angelina Lopez is a Mexican-American author currently living in the US. Her family hails from Jalisco and Guanajuato on her mother's side and Zacatecas and Sinaloa on her father's side. Her debut, Popo the Xolo (2025), grew from the loss of her own abuela a few years prior. Written in Spanglish and Spanish, the book celebrates both modern Mexican