Oge Mora is a children's book illustrator and author who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and works in cut paper, paint, and china markers. She is best known for Thank You, Omu!, which received a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent, and the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award in 2019. Her other picture book, Saturday, follows a mother and daughter whose planned day takes an unexpected turn. Her parents emigrated from Nigeria to Columbus, Ohio, and she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design.
