Kamala Nair is an Architect and an Illustrator from Kerala, India. She is a New York Times Bestselling illustrator of “Gorgeously Me” (Flamingo, 2024) written by the Netflix Queer Eye star, Jonathan Van Ness, and the illustrator of “The Way Champs Play” (HarperCollins, 2022) written by Grand Slam Tennis Player, Naomi Osaka.
Her book “The Light Within You” has won The Crystal Kite Award by SCWBI and SLJ best books of 2023. She is currently working on her second picture book with HarperCollins.
read moreDuring her free time, she loves to sew and up-cycle her clothes, with a mix of her traditional Indian roots and her love for the pop culture. She also makes tiny clay trinkets, paints and repaints her existing furniture and secretly (and obsessively) hopes she gets the magical superpowers to CREATE and MAKE everything cool.
