Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area with her wonderful family and impossibly cute dog. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, she spends her time writing novels and picture books when she’s not practicing medicine. Her middle grade debut, Midsummer’s Mayhem, is an Indian-American mashup of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and competitive baking. Her debut picture book, Seven Golden Rings: A Tale of Music and Math, set in ancient India, involves a math puzzle and an explanation of binary numbers. Her forthcoming middle grade novel-in-verse, Red, White, and Whole, will publish in February 2021with Quill Tree Book/HarperCollins and involves heritage and fitting in, science and poetry, Hindu mythology and 80s pop music. You can learn about her other forthcoming books at www.RajaniLaRocca.com.