About

Mia Wenjen 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.

Mia blogs on parenting, children’s books, and education at  PragmaticMom.com and is the co-creator of Read Your World,  a non-profit celebrating diversity in children’s books.

Her debut picture book, Sumo Joe, illustrated by Nat Iwata (Lee and Low, 2019), was selected as a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year.