Kit Grady has always loved to draw. One of her earliest projects was a drawing in big black crayon of a life-sized playmate on the outside of her parent’s brick house. She drew a jump rope in one of the playmate’s hands that circled around the house, connecting at the other hand. She learned quickly what drawing paper was for. She continued her passion studying art at Virginia Commonwealth University and later studied under Caldecott winners Uri Shulevitz and Gale Haley.

Kit is best known for her bright colors and expressive animals.

She has produced greeting cards, created a weekly children’s page for the local newspaper, and illustrated a medical book for J.B. Lippincott Company. Some of Kit’s client’s include Kaeden Books, Windswept House Publishers, United Methodist Publishing House/Cokesbury and Guardian Angel Publishing.
She is a member of the Collier Creative Group, assisting authors and publishers with illustrative needs. As author and illustrator, she gave her own pup a stage in “Jiggsy’s Necklace” by Windswept House Publishers.

Kaeden Books has published “Just One More, Mom” as part of their early reading program. Kit recently illustrated “Flutter Bunnies” for Guardian Angel Publishers, which specializes in print and ebooks. Kit is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

In the small town of Southern Pines she lives with her wonderful husband, Danny. Kit is the mother of Heather, Shannon, and Joey- and feeder of Panda, the border collie.