Rajani LaRocca

Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young readers, including Midsummer’s Mayhem (Yellow Jacket/Little Bee Books, 2019), Seven Golden RIngs (Lee & Low Books, 2020), Red, White, and Whole (Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 2021), Bracelets for Bina’s Brothers (Charlesbridge, 2021), Much Ado About Baseball (Yellow Jacket/Little Bee Books, 2021), Where Three Oceans Meet (Abrams, 2021), My Little Golden Book About Kamala Harris (Golden Books, 2021), The Secret Code Inside You (Little Bee Books, 2021), I’ll Go and Come Back (Candlewick, 2022), and more. She’s always been an omnivorous reader, and now she is an omnivorous writer of fiction and nonfiction, novels and picture books, prose and poetry. She also cohosts the STEM Women in KidLit Podcast. Find her at www.rajanilarocca.com or on Twitter and Instagram @rajanilarocca.