Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Danica Novgorodoff graduated from Yale University and has worked as a horse trainer in Virginia, an English teacher in Ecuador, an assistant to photographer Sally Mann, and an artist review writer for galleries in Chelsea and SoHo, New York. In 2006 she won the Isotope Award for her mini-comic A Late Freeze, and in 2007 was nominated for an Eisner Award. She currently lives in New York City, where she works as a designer for First Second Books.