Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the award-winning author of Two Naomis, Naomis Too, and Eighth Grade Superzero, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, a Notable Book for a Global Society honor by the International Reading Association, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People honor by the National Council for the Social Studies and CBC, and was named an Amazon Best Book of the Month. She is also the author of Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins (Quarto Kids) and Above and Beyond: Nasa’s Journey to Tomorrow (Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan) and editor of the forthcoming We Need Diverse Books anthology, The Hero Next Door. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.