Danica Novgorodoff is a graphic novelist, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and writer from Brooklyn, New York and Louisville, Kentucky. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, was named Sarabande Books’ 2016 writer in residence, and received a 2020 Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant in literature. Her art and writing have been published in MoMA Magazine, Best American Comics, The Believer, Artforum, Esquire, VQR, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Journal, The Arkansas International, and others.
Career Novgorodoff's first graphic novel, A Late Freeze, was self-published in 2006 and won the Isotope Award for excellence in mini-comics, and her graphic novel, Refresh, Refresh, was included in Best American Comics in 2011. Her book, The Undertaking of Lily Chen, was published in March 2014. In 2020, Novgorodoff's graphic novel adaptation of Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds, was published by Simon and Schuster and won the 2022 Kate Greenaway Medal.
Novgorodoff is a graduate of Yale University with a bachelor's degree in art and, from 1999 to 2003, worked as an assistant to photographer Sally Mann.
Bibliography
A Late Freeze, 2006 Slow Storm, 2008 Refresh, Refresh, with James Ponsoldt and Benjamin Percy, 2009 The Undertaking of Lily Chen, 2014 Long Way Down, adapted from the novel by Jason Reynolds, 2020 The Simple Art of Rice , with JJ Johnson, 2023
References
External links Danica Novgorodoff at Macmillan Publishers Killing the Buddha Center for Urban Pedagogy NCCD Global Making Policy Public Best American Comics