Author of
Our Lake (Kokila, 2025)
Angie Kang is a Chinese-American writer and illustrator living in the Bay Area. She has been published in The Believer, The Rumpus, Narrative, The Offing, Okay Donkey Mag, Wildness, and others. She won the Beth Lisa Feldman Prize in Children’s Literature and April Sinclair selected her as the winner of the 2021 Subnivean Fiction Award. She was previously a Design Fellow at Chronicle Books and is presently the Art Editor of Vestal Review. Angie recently graduated from the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program with a BFA in Illustration from RISD and a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University.
Angie Kang
Books by Angie
Our Lake (Kokila, March 2025)
Two brothers return to a lake that they have visited many times before, but this time after losing their father. OUR LAKE movingly explores themes of healing after loss and the power of memory, reflection, and having a sibling to lean on through times of grief.
PRAISE
★ “Kang’s debut picture book is a quiet portrait of the ways in which grief takes us by surprise, and its glorious final celebratory splash offers a radiant reminder of how joy and connection can exist alongside sadness.” —The Horn Book, starred review
★ “A gentle and heartfelt exploration of grief, this book is a must-have addition to any library shelf.” —School Library Journal, starred review
★ “Kang debuts with a deeply felt story about siblings returning to a cherished place…this story about loss offers a vision of a place where ‘we are all together.’” —Publishers Weekly, starred review