K-Fai Steele (she/her) is an author-illustrator who grew up in a house built in the 1700s with a printing press her father bought from a magician. She was a Brown Handler Writer in Residence at the San Francisco Public Library, a James Marshall Fellow at the University of Connecticut, and a Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Memorial Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Born in Charlton, MA she now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.