Aisha Toombs is a teacher, author, and bee-enthusiast. Nerdi Bunny and the Busy Bee Bully Bear Business, the first book of the Nerdi Bunny series, is a 2018 Purple Dragonfly Book Award Winner and marks her debut as a children’s book writer. Nerdi Bunny teaches readers that they can be brainy and brilliant all while learning about friendship, family, caring for their environment, and working through their problems. She has written articles and reviews for various websites, written a one-act play for the 2008 GLO New Light Festival in Philadelphia and previously self-published an anthology of poetry and short stories. In addition to writing she currently teaches high school English and resides outside of Philadelphia, PA where she lives with her family that includes a husband, a best friend, a special covert ops mission cat named Madeline and her newest cat addition, Count Felix Espresso of Delco.