This Hair Belongs

JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD, is an award-winning children’s author, poet, educator, scholar, and a former professor of Early Childhood Education and Child Development. She is the author of Imani’s Moon, which won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award, and Grandma’s Tiny House. She currently lives in Sacramento, CA.Erin K. Robinson is an Emmy-nominated illustrator in the category “Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary—Obama’s Legacy” for her illustrations in the Washington Post. Trained at the Parsons School of Design and the Corcoran School of Art, Erin's illustrations have been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others, and her picture books include A Library by Nikki Giovanni. In 2025, she is the living stamp artist chosen to create arts programs for Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. Erin lives part of the year in Kenya and part of the year in the United States.