Nora Krug is an author and illustrator and an associate professor in the Illustration Program at The New School’s Parsons School of Design. She holds a BA in performance design from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, a Diplom in visual communication from the Universität der Künste Berlin, and an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is the author of award-winning graphic nonfiction narratives, including Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home (Scribner, 2018), Kamikaze (published in Best American Comics 2012;Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012); Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia (Ten Speed Graphic, 2023); Krug also created the graphic edition of Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Ten Speed Graphic, 2021), which won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators and a silver medal from the New York Art Directors Club. In 2018, she received the National Book Critics Circle Award and Illustrator of the Year Award from the Victoria and Albert Museum for Belonging. Krug has held fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Maurice Sendak Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Most recently, she was a 2024-25 fellow at Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.