Veronica Gonzalez Peña is a Mexican-born writer and filmmaker. She is the author of twin time: or how death befell me, which won the Aztlán Literary Prize, and The Sad Passions, a finalist for the Chicano-Latino Book Award. She is also the author of So Far from God, a monograph on the Mexican drug war. Her films include Cordelia, Lawrence Weiner: Writing on the Wall, and Pat Steir: Artist, which ARTnews named one of the ten best artist documentaries of 2020.