K-Fai Steele

Hi! My name is K-Fai Steele and I write and draw picture books.

A Normal Pig my debut author-illustrator book comes out in June 2019 with Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins. Noodlephant by Jacob Kramer and illustrated by me is coming out in February 2019 with Enchanted Lion. Old MacDonald Had a Baby by Emily Snape comes out in fall 2019 with Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.

I live in San Francisco and I’m currently a 2018-2019 Brown Handler Writer in Residence at the San Francisco Public Library. I was the 2018 Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Memorial Fellow at the University of Minnesota, and I've been an Artist in Residence at ArtsIceland, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study.

However, my first ambition was not to

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