Laurel Goodluck is the author of many books for young readers, including the award-winning Forever Cousins, Rock Your Mocs, She Persisted: Deb Haaland, and Too Much: My Great Big Native Family. She comes from an intertribal background of Mandan and Hidatsa from the prairies of North Dakota and Tsimshian from a rainforest in Alaska. Laurel lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her Navajo husband, where they raised two sons. Visit her online at laurelgoodluck.com.