A young woman with brown hair wearing a green shirt is working on a watercolor painting at a wooden desk. She is surrounded by art supplies, including pastels and a colorful tray of oil pastels, with a window and a screen door in the background.

Angie Kang makes art in LA. She is the author-illustrator of Our Lake (Kokila), which won 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 also illustrated Navigating Night (Anne Schwartz Books), written by Julie Leung, which won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Her next author-illustrated book, My Grandma the Stranger (Kokila), will be published in March 2027.

She is the Art Director of Vestal Review.

A 2026 Sendak Fellow and the 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Fellow at MacDowell, she has also received support from organizations such as VCCA, VONA/Voices, Tin House, Sundress Academy, and others. Her work was named a finalist for the 2026 James Beard Media Awards, shortlisted for the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize, and featured in The New Yorker, The Believer, Narrative, Ecotone, Best Small Fictions, and elsewhere.

For publishing-related inquiries, please contact Anjali Singh at The Anjali Singh Agency.

For inquiries about original art from any of her books, please contact R. Michelson Galleries.

For commissions, signings, appearances, speaking engagements (including school visits, panels, and lectures), and all other work inquiries, please email angiekang.art{at}gmail{dot}com.