Songju Ma Daemicke, a former software engineer with Motorola, grew up in China and is an award-winning children’s book author living in the United States. Her latest book Tu Youyou’s Discovery – Finding a Cure for Malaria is one of Mighty Girl's 2021 Books of the Year. Songju’s picture book Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant was a Best STEM book, the Winner of 2018 CALA Best Juvenile Literature, an Outstanding Science Trade book, a Notable-Social-Studies book, and a Mathical Honor Book. When she’s not writing, Songju loves attending to her flowers and vegetables in her garden and shooting her next special photograph.