Kyle Lukoff is an author of young-adult and children's books. Born in 1984, Lukoff grew up in Washington state. He received his undergraduate degree from Barnard College in 2006 and went on to get a master's degree in library science from Queens College in 2012. He was a librarian at the Corlears School in New York City for several years, before becoming a writer full-time in 2020. He also worked as a bookseller. Lukoff is a transgender man and much of his work deals with gender identity and acceptance. He has said he seeks to make his work accessible to children and young adults, in an effort to make them feel understood and seen in the stories that they read.
Lukoff is the author of several novels, most notably: A Storytelling of Ravens (2018), Call Me Max (2019), When Aidan Became a Brother (2019), Too Bright to See (2021) Different Kinds of Fruit (2022), and Awake Asleep (2023). His work has received the Newbery Honor Award and the Stonewall Award. Additionally, he was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. His work has been reviewed positively by publications like The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post. Praising the compassionate tone of Lukoff's writing in Too Bright to See, The New York Times called the novel "a gentle, glowing wonder, full of love and understanding."
Too Bright to See is a young-adult novel by Kyle Lukoff. It follows Bug, a young person, who begins to experience a series of supernatural events following the death of an uncle. Over the course of the book, Bug comes to a meaningful understanding...
