Vera brosgol biography

Vera Brosgol was born in Moscow, Russia in 1984 and moved to the United States when she was five. She received a diploma in Classical Animation from Sheridan College, and spent many years working in feature animation but now she is writing and drawing books full-time. She likes that very much.

She has storyboarded for Laika on the feature films Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings, and was Head of Story for the Academy-Award-winning Pinnochio.

 Her first graphic novel, Anya's Ghost, was published in 2011 by First Second Books and won an Eisner Award. Her first picture book, Leave Me Alone, was published in 2016 by Roaring Brook Press and won a Caldecott Honor.

She lives in Portland, OR, and loves hiking, riding her bike, and baking bread.  She hopes you are enjoying looking at her drawings.

Vera Brosgol is the author of the 2017 Caldecott Honor picture book Leave Me Alone! as well as the Eisner, Cybils, and Harvey Award-winning graphic novel Anya’s Ghost. Her latest picture book is A Spoonful of Frogs written by Casey Lyall.

Born in Moscow, Russia in 1984, Vera immigrated to the United States with her family when she was five. A voracious reader and obsessive artist, Vera did not consider making books to be a viable job (possibly because she’d never had an author visit!). Instead, she began her career in animation, studying Classical Animation at Sheridan College and working for a decade at Laika Inc. as a storyboard artist on films including Coraline, The Boxtrolls, Paranorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings. She’s been a full-time author since 2016, with a brief detour to work on the Academy Award-winning feature film Pinocchio, directed by Guillermo del Toro.

A West Coast transplant, Vera spends her days writing, drawing and baking bread in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

Canadian cartoonist

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Awards

Bibliography

• 2002: "Babeland" (part wages Mostly Acquisitions)
• 2003: Wary Tales Anthology
• 2002–2004: Return to Sender (discontinued)
• 2004: "I Wish..." (part of Flight Volume One)^[8]
• 2005: "Salmoning" (part of Flight Volume Two)
• 2005: Hopeless Savages: B-sides: Say publicly Origin worm your way in the Dusted Bunnies (as co-illustrator