Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of several children’s books, including 8th Grade Superzero, NAACP Image Award nominee Two Naomis, co-authored with Audrey Vernick, It Doesn’t Take A Genius, Operation Sisterhood, Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow, Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future, and the picture books Someday Is Now and Mae Makes A Way. She is a member of the Brown Bookshelf, and editor of the We Need Diverse Books anthology The Hero Next Door. Olugbemisola lives with her family in New York City where she writes, makes things, and needs to get more sleep.