Mia wrote the poems
CHINESE PHOENIX, NINE-TAILED FOX,
and ASIAN UNICORN
Gnome & UnGnome Facts About Mia:
Mia Wenjen ( pronounced, Mee-ah Wengine (rhymes with “engine”) is half Japanese & half Chinese American and married to a Korean American. This unusual ethnic combination made her seek out all kinds of Asian representation in children’s books for her three kids. She started a blog, PragmaticMom.com, to share her favorite books, and Multicultural Children’s Book Day to celebrate diverse KidLit.
Mia’s debut picture book, Sumo Joe (Lee and Low, 2019) & illustrated by Nat Iwata was selected as a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year.
She wrote Asian Pacific American Heroes for Scholastic (2020) and Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes as a Kickstarter pandemic project. Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World releases spring of 2023 through Barefoot Books.
Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist (Red Comet Press) and Boxer Baby (Eifrig Publishing) releases in 2024.
Mia started a company more than thirty years ago out of a dorm room with two friends. Now, Aquent has 27 domestic and 10 international offices supplying creative, digital, and marketing talent globally.
Follow her @pragmaticmom on social media.
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