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, You’re Breaking My Heart, a Junior Library Guild selection, 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), SLJ and Bank Street Best of the Year, 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, Read Brightly, American Baby, and her childhood favorite fanzines, like the iconic Right On! Magazine. She’s contributed to several anthologies, including We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, and edited The Hero Next Door. Olugbemisola worked extensively in youth development, was the 2024 Writer-in-Residence at Bank Street School for Children, and was commissioned to adapt Operation Sisterhood for the stage. She lives in NYC where she writes, makes things, and needs to get more sleep.
Visit Olugbemisola’s website: http://www.olugbemisolabooks.com/
