Carmen Bogan

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 her first picture book, "Granny, Who Is God? ​