Born and raised in Chicago, Yaram Yahu has been writing for nearly twenty years. His debut traditional picture book, MY AFRO IS A RISING SUN, will be released in December 2024 with Running Kids Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. In addition to novel writing, Mr. Yahu also has over ten years of screenwriting and editorial experience. His editorial involvement includes Beacon Press, an independent book publisher who specializes in memoirs and nonfiction, distributed with Penguin Random House. You can also find his work published in Solstice Literary Magazine under Christopher J. Calhoun, a magazine of diverse voices. You can also find him published in Keystrokes: Volume III, Timbooktu, Finli, and The Stories They Tell! By The Young Voices Foundation. Educationally, Mr. Yahu attended Emerson College’s writing, literature, and publishing program. He tutored children ages 6-18 at 826 Boston, an inner-city writing and publishing center. He also worked at Jumpstart, an AmeriCorps early education program devoted to children’s learning, language, and literacy skills. Through his nonprofit Witness to the World, he started five schools in Pakistan and visited two shortly before the pandemic. He has also done volunteer orphanage work in Tanzania. When he was younger, he founded his own self-publishing company, Rainbows Publishing Inc. His friends and family like to consider him a “world traveler,” as he’s ventured into 26 countries, 4 continents, and 31 U.S. States to date! He’s currently working on multiple TV, novel, and picture book projects.