Jodie Patterson is the author of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation and was Family Circle magazine\'s Most Influential Mom in 2018.
She now lives in Indianapolist, Indiana, with her husband Jukabiea..
She discovered a love for drawing and painting during her childhood in Poughkeepsie, New York, which led her to the world of children\'s book illustration.
Charnelle Pinkney Barlow is an illustrator, an expert tea drinker, and a lover of all things doughnuts.
Visit her at georgiany.com.
Jodie raises her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Jodie was inspired to write Born Ready to show how an entire community can be flexible and change for those they love.
She is the mother of five children, two of whom are self-proclaimed gender nonconformists--one transgender and another genderqueer.
Jodie Patterson is the author of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation and was Family Circle magazine\'s Most Influential Mom in 2018
