Danica Novgorodoff

Biography

Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, and graphic novelist living in Louisville, KY.

In 2022, Danica was awarded the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal, “the UK’s longest running and best-loved book awards for children and young people.” 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 The New Yorker, MoMA Magazine, Best American Comics, The Believer, Artforum, Esquire, VQR, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Journal, The Arkansas International, and others. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, Willapa Bay, and Brush Creek.