Angie Kang makes art in LA. She is the author-illustrator of OUR LAKE (Kokila) which received a Caldecott Honor, the Charlotte Zolotow Award, the Dilys Evans Founder’s Award, and was featured on “Best of” lists by NPR,
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and more. She is also the illustrator of NAVIGATING NIGHT, written by Julie Leung (Anne Schwartz Books), which received the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award and was a finalist for the 2026 Kirkus Prize. Her work was named a finalist for the 2026 James Beard Awards, shortlisted for the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize, and featured in
The New Yorker, The Believer, Narrative, and elsewhere. She was a 2026 Sendak Fellow and the 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Fellow at MacDowell. Find her at
angiekang.net or on Instagram @anqiekanq.
