OLUGBEMISOLA RHUDAY-PERKOVICH is the award-winning author of several books, including IndieNext Top Ten Pick and BCALA Best of the Best Operation Sisterhood, Kirkus Best of the Year It Doesn’t Take a Genius, 8th Grade Superzero, a Notable Book for A Global Society, and NAACP Image Award Nominee Two Naomis, co-authored with Audrey Vernick. She also writes picture books, easy readers, and nonfiction like School Library Journal and Bank Street Best of the Year Makeda Makes A Birthday Treat, The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition), Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future, a CCBC Choices book, and Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book. Olugbemisola has written for various outlets, including PBS Parents and her childhood favorite fanzines, like the iconic Right On! Magazine. She’s contributed to several anthologies, like We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, and The Hero Next Door. Olugbemisola is a longtime teaching artist and writing coach, and was the 2024 Writer-in-Residence at Bank Street School for Children.
Visit Olugbemisola’s website: http://www.olugbemisolabooks.com/
