Raul Gonzalez is the 2017 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award recipient for Lowriders to the Center of the Earth. His previous graphic novel, Lowriders in Space, was nominated for a Texas BlueBonnet Award
2016-2017. In 2011, he collaborated with over 125 kids from all over the city of Boston to create a work titled "and their Families" for the Linde Family Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.