| Karleen Pendleton Jiménez | |
| Birth Place: | California |
| Occupation: | Memoirist, academic |
| Period: | 2000s-present |
| Nationality: | American-Canadian |
| Notableworks: | Are You a Boy or a Girl?, How to Get a Girl Pregnant |
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.