Zina Saunders has been a writer-illustrator for more than 15 years. In addition to contributions in a variety of periodicals (including The Wall Street Journal, The Progressive, ESPN magazine, Hemispheres, and The Utne Reader), her client list includes Chronicle Books, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Scholastic, Oxford University Press, and Nickelodeon.
Zina lives and works in New York City, where she grew up and attended Music and Art High School and The Cooper Union. She left Manhattan in her 20’s to be a levitating lady with a traveling circus in upstate New York, but eventually returned to her senses and her beloved city.