Michaela Goade

Michaela Goade is an artist and picture book maker who lives in Sitka, Alaska. She is a member of the Raven moiety and the Kiks.ádi clan, and her work often draws on Indigenous culture and the coastal landscapes of Southeast Alaska.

Goade illustrated We Are Water Protectors (2020), written by Carole Lindstrom, which won the 2021 Caldecott Medal. Her first book as both author and illustrator, Berry Song (2022), follows a young Tlingit girl and her grandmother gathering berries through the seasons and received a 2023 Caldecott Honor. She has also illustrated I Sang You Down from the Stars by Tasha Spillett, Encounter by Brittany Luby, Remember by Joy Harjo and Being Home by Traci Sorell, and she wrote and illustrated Moon Song.

Her luminous illustrations celebrate family, place and the natural world for young readers.