Danica Novgorodoff

{{Short description|American artist (born 1980)}} {{Infobox comics creator

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'''Danica Novgorodoff''' is a graphic novelist, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and writer from Brooklyn, New York and Louisville, Kentucky.<ref name="nyt1">{{cite news|last=Wolk|first=Douglas|date=1 June 2014|title=Sunday Book Review: In the Next Life|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2014/05/30/books/review/01wolk-slides-4.html|accessdate=20 June 2014}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/behind-the-poster-the-bad-and-the-better/ |title=Behind the Poster: 'The Bad and the Better' |work=The New York Times|date=30 May 2012|first=Erik|last=Piepenburg|accessdate=30 July 2012}}</ref><ref name=tcj>{{cite news|url=http://classic.tcj.com/tcj-300/tcj-300-conversations-alison-bechdel-danica-novgorodoff/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013124508/https://classic.tcj.com/tcj-300/tcj-300-conversations-alison-bechdel-danica-novgorodoff/|archive-date=13 October 2013|title=TCJ 300 Conversations: Alison Bechdel & Danica Novgorodoff |work=The Comics Journal|date=17 December 2009|first=Alison|last=Bechdel|accessdate=5 December 2013}}</ref><ref name=cbr>{{cite news|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23070|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927053757/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23070|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 27, 2009|title=Danica Novgorodoff talks "Refresh, Refresh" |work= Comic Book Resources|date=25 September 2009|first=Alex|last=Dueben|accessdate=5 October 2013}}</ref> 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,<ref name=nyt /><ref name=cbr /> and her graphic novel, ''Refresh, Refresh'', was included in ''Best American Comics'' in 2011.<ref name=nyt /><ref name=cbr /> Her book, ''The Undertaking of Lily Chen'', was published in March 2014.<ref name=nyt1 /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Balen, Novgorodoff win Carnegie, Greenaway medals |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/06/20/215961/balen-novgorodoff-win-carnegie-greenaway-medals/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}</ref>

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.<ref name=nyt />

==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== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://us.macmillan.com/Author/danicanovgorodoff Danica Novgorodoff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530035531/http://us.macmillan.com/author/danicanovgorodoff |date=2012-05-30 }} at Macmillan Publishers *[http://killingthebuddha.com/author/danicanovgorodoff/ ''Killing the Buddha''] *[http://welcometocup.org/People?role=Designers Center for Urban Pedagogy] *[http://www.nccdglobal.org/sites/default/files/winners2011.pdf NCCD Global] *[http://makingpolicypublic.net/index.php?page=I-Got-Arrested Making Policy Public] *[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/hmh/bestamerican/comicsbookdetails Best American Comics]

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