Native Chicagoan and Pulitzer Prize winnerMichelle V. Aginsis a staff photojournalist forThe New York Times. Her photographs have appeared inEssence, Sports Illustrated, Ebony,andJet. She is featured inSongs of My PeopleandPhotographs of Hope.The coauthor ofRookie, a children's book on the WNBA player Tamika Whitmore, Michelle has won regional and national awards including the Gordon Parks Award forBroken Promises, a story of indigent people living along the Mississippi Delta. She now lives in Brooklyn with her family.