Bunmi Ishola

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Bunmi Ishola is a former journalist and middle-school teacher who now works in children’s book publishing. She’s constantly guilty of tsundoku, but that hasn’t stopped her from buying more books. She loves to travel and has been to over twenty countries and every continent except Antarctica. When she’s not reading, buying books, or traveling, she’s probably watching something on Disney+, HGTV, or Food Network. You can find this former WLT intern on Instagram @bunmi_ishola.

Afrofuturism at the Museum of Pop Culture

January 2023
Bunmi Ishola
The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is a unique museum nestled within the Seattle Center, steps away from the Space Needle. With permanent exhibits dedicated to the infinite worlds of sci-fi, the myths…
A Postcard from Santa Fe

November 2022
Bunmi Ishola
Scotwriter21, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons At the start of the summer, I set out on a long drive. I was headed to Texas from…
Diversifying Bookshelves: From Trend to Norm

Autumn 2020
Bunmi Ishola
Photos: Sarah Kamaya IN THE WAKE of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, America woke up to find itself in the midst of a national reckoning over r…