Dasha Ziborova is a graphic novelist, picture book illustrator, and a muralist. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and came to New York in 1991. Since then Dasha has illustrated five children’s picture books including the award-winning
Crispin the Terrible published by Callaway Editions, and
In English, of Course and
The Numbers Dance by Gingerbread House. She is currently working on developing short graphic stories about New York City and its inhabitants. Besides writing and illustrating books, Dasha has also designed and painted a series of large-scale murals for The Peninsula Hotel’s New York and Chicago locations, the Plaza Hotel in New York, designs for reliefs for the Waldorf Astoria in New York, and designs for over thirty murals for Atlantic Center in Brooklyn.
