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 make books; it was to be a fish. When I got older I installed artwork at MoMA, learned how to support educators in libraries and museums to work collaboratively through the National Writing Project and YOUmedia Learning Labs Network, and I helped to start a maker program in libraries across Philadelphia through a federal grant (I even got to do a TEDx talk). You can find out more about me in an interview I did on Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, or a video interview for Hello, Studio! that fellow illustrators Zoey Abbott and Alison Farrell produced. I’ve made drawings for a bunch of people, places, and things, including Chibitronics, the Reykjavik Grapevine, MIT Media Lab, School Library Journal, Philly Weekly, University of Leicester (UK) Archaeology and Ancient History Department, Electroninks, and the Creativity Labs at Indiana University. I'm represented by Erica Rand Silverman at Stimola Literary. Please contact Erica for all book-related inquiries: erica@stimolaliterarystudio.com
4 Books Written
A picture book about a spotted pig in a class full of pink pigs who learns to accept her differences.Pip is a normal pig who does normal stuff: cooking, painting, and dreaming of what she’ll be when she grows up.But one day a new pig comes to school and starts pointing out all the ways in which Pip is different. Suddenly she doesn’t like any of the same things she used to . . . the things that made her Pip.
A funny and charming picture book about a girl who realizes that there are even better things than getting attention, from the author of A Normal PigOzzy loves attention. And the person she wants it from most of all is her music teacher, Ms. Bomba.So when it’s time to choose an instrument for the school recital, Ozzy picks the biggest, loudest, most attention-grabbing one of all: the DRUMS!It’s hard to stay on beat, though, when all you want to do is stand out. But getting in tune with her classmates—with a little help from her favorite teacher—just might turn out to be even better than a solo in the spotlight.
Best Buds
by K-Fai Steele
Lone Wolf Has Friends
by K-Fai Steele