Glenda Armand
Glenda Armand has had a long career as a teacher and school librarian. She enjoys writing picture book biographies that inspire children to read, learn and dream big. She is the author of the award-winning Love Twelve Miles Long, a book about the young Frederick Douglass, who, born a slave, grew up to become a renowned abolitionist and friend to Abraham Lincoln.
Glenda has written books on gifted Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge and musical savant, Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins.
Her most recent book is Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese: A Story of Food, Family and Freedom. Coming soon are All Aboard the School Train: A Little Story from the Great Migration, Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better and The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story.
Glenda lives in Los Angeles and has a son and daughter. When not writing or practicing the piano, she tends a garden full of roses and succulents. Drop by her website at glenda-armand.com.