About Yevgenia Nayberg

Yevgenia Nayberg is an award-winning illustrator, painter, and set and costume designer. Her illustrations have appeared in magazines and picture books, and on theatre posters, music albums, and book covers; her paintings, drawings, and illustrations are held in private collections worldwide. As a set and costume designer, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts/TCG Fellowship for Theatre Designers, the Independent Theatre Award, and the Arlin Meyer Award. She has received multiple awards for her picture book illustrations, including three Sydney Taylor Medals. Her debut author/illustrator picture book, Anya's Secret Society, came out in 2019 and received a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection Award. She’s an author/illustrator of Typewriter and Mona Lisa In New York. Her next book, I Hate Borsch! will be published in 2022. Born and raised in Kiev, she now lives in New York City

In her work, she always feels connected to literature. She's fascinated by a verbal metaphor. She likes to look for a visual equivalent of a word, for poetic translation into the language of visual art. Yevgenia is interested in imagery that is, unlike literature, without narrative, and yet conveys a feeling just as strongly.