A woman with shoulder-length light brown hair and glasses rests her chin on her hand, smiling slightly. She is wearing a navy blue sweater and sitting in front of brownstone steps.

Roz Chast

Roz Chast is a longtime cartoonist from The New Yorker magazine. She is the author and illustrator of numerous books which include the award-winning Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a chronicle of her parents’ final years; Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York; and Theories of Everything. In 2024, she received a medal from President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.