Carmen Bogan
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is a children’s author, publisher, and frequent speaker. Her picture book, "Where’s Rodney?" (Yosemite Conservancy, 2017) illustrated by the award-winning artist, Floyd Cooper, was a starred Kirkus Best Picture Book of the Year, a Junior Library Guild selection, which received numerous glowing reviews. The sequel to "Where’s Rodney?" is "Tasha’s Words," a Yosemite Conservancy book and Willis Watson is a Wannabe from Simon and Schuster were published in 2024. Carmen is now writing her first middle grade novel, "Fly Like Frankie."
A recipient of the New Voices Award from Lee & Low Books, Carmen is a staunch children’s literacy advocate who believes that all children deserve to read about characters that reflect their own lives, dreams, and cultures. Carmen is the founder of Dream on Publishing, a boutique publisher of multicultural children’s books, which released the picture book, "Granny, Who Is God? which she also authored.
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Her personal goal as an author is to write high-quality literature that all children can enjoy and to create protagonists and plotlines that draw the interests and propel the passions of children of color. She believes that every child deserves to learn to read and to enjoy characters that look like them and celebrate their legacies.
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Carmen is a member of the Oakland Literacy Coalition and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She is an alumna of Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, Willie. She has two adult daughters, Erin Bogan and Natalie Kingwood, a son-in-law, Terrell and "the smartest, cutest grandson ever," Logan.
