Kirbi Fagan is a Michigan based, New York Best Selling illustrator. Her work includes the picture book The Summer of the Tree Army by Gloria Whelan (2021), We Are the Scrappy Ones by Rebekah Taussig (2025), A Horse Named Sky by Rosanne Parry (2023) as well as cover art in adult, YA, middle-grade, and comic books. Kirbi is driven to create books for readers like her. When she was growing up, arts and crafts were her lifeline as a way to cope with ongoing illness. Kirbi is traditionally trained as an oil painter, earning her bachelor's degree in Illustration from Kendall College of Art and Design. Her first author-illustrator project will debut fall 2025.

Kirbi visits classrooms, pre-K to university to talk about being an artist and making books. She is the former Co-Regional Illustrator Coordinator with the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators. She and her husband live in Milford, Michigan, where they practice sustainable gardening on their small homestead.

Represented by Kayla Cichello | Kayla(at)upstartcrowliterary.com

For other inquiries about school visits and more:

Kirbifagan(at)gmail.com