Maisha Oso didn't always know she wanted to write. Her my fondest childhood memories are of her playing outside in Queens, New York in the 80s and 90s.

Those were the days. If she closes her eyes, she can still feel the scorching heat of the New York summer, see the blur of a double dutch rope turning in perfect circles, and hear the bass of a passing car, blasting the latest hip-hop song as the neighborhood kids sang along. On rainy days, she’d stay inside writing poetry, or her own verse to that same rap song. Yes, those were the days, those blissful summer days where nothing was ever planned, yet somehow they were able to find adventure when they weren’t even looking for it.

She was always good at math and sciences, so years later she ended up in a career in analytics. But there was always a part of her that desired to do something more creative. In 2013 her life was turned upside down when her husband and she moved to Nairobi, Kenya on an expat assignment. But it wasn’t until 2016 that she encountered her biggest adventure yet: motherhood.

Parenting is not for the weak, and her daughter Selah worked with every fiber in her being to prove that to Maisha. Her daughter needed routine and their daily story time became one of her favorite parts of the day. Selah absolutely loved it. Every night without fail, she'd read the same stories over and over again, and she would beam each time as if it was the first time she'd heard them. It was one of Maisha's favorite parts of the day as well. She loved how the words would roll off her tongue like a hip-hop song, the clever characters, the funny and heartwarming endings. She loved the way some stories hit home for her as well. Those stories took us on adventures every night.

A couple of years later, our storytime was crashed by another book lover, her son Elijah (who is A LOT MORE). Just like his sister, he loved storytime. After a while, she knew she wanted to write stories for her kids and kids like them, and thus, her writing journey began.

They're a family of five now (she have another son, Judah, who was born in 2020), and they now live between Johannesburg, South Africa, and Atlanta, GA. Besides that, not much has changed. Her life continues to be an adventure, and she would love nothing more than to write books that take children on adventures of their own.