Brown-Wood, Janay: - JaNay Brown-Wood grew up with a passion for writing and drafted her first series of unpublished picture books in the second grade. After earning a BA of Psychology UCLA, an MA of Child Development from CSU Sacramento, and a PhD of Education from UC Davis, JaNay still loves storytelling! Her first book, Imani's Moon, was a NAESP Children's Book of the Year and a Reading is Fundamental Multicultural Book Pick. She lives with her family in California.