Erin Entrada Kelly is an American writer best known for Hello, Universe, which won the Newbery Medal in 2018. She won that medal a second time in 2025 for The First State of Being, and she is one of only five authors to have won two Newbery Medals and a Newbery Honor. Her other books include We Dream of Space, a 2021 Newbery Honor, The Land of Forgotten Girls, and At Last She Stood, her first work of nonfiction, which earned a Sibert Honor.
