Yevgenia Nayberg is an award-winning illustrator, painter, and set and costume designer. She has received multiple awards for her picture book illustrations, including a Sydney Taylor Honor and two notable recognitions. She is the author and illustrator of the picture books A Party for Florine, Anya's Secret Society, Typewriter, Mona Lisa In New York, and I Hate Borsch!, and the illustrator of Drop by Drop by Jacqueline Jules, among other collaborations. Her latest books with Neal Porter Books are Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters: A Graphic Memoir and Another Tongue. Born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine, she now lives in New York City.