Margaret Kimball is the author of the graphic memoirs AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS (HarperOne 2021), a Belletrist Book Club Selection, and A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY AFFAIRS (Pantheon 2026-ish). Her writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Believer, LitHub, Ecotone, Black Warrior Review, South Loop Review, and many other places. She’s been in residence at Yaddo and MacDowell.
As an illustrator and hand letterer, she’s worked with clients like Verge, Smithsonian Magazine, Macy’s, Marks & Spencer, Boston Globe, Little, Brown, Simon & Schuster, Diageo, Ogilvy, Random House, and many others. Margaret is also the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Naked & Thriving, a clean skincare company she started with her brother.
Born in Connecticut, Margaret is married to the fiction writer Christian Moody and they live with their two children in Indianapolis.
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