Katya Gushchina

Katia Gushchina is a writer and illustrator from Nizhny Novgorod. She was born in 1996. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Higher School of Economics, majoring in “Design and Illustration” and “Print Graphics.”

She enjoys working with texts, so all her books are both illustrated and written by her. Her first publications were based on her own stories: a travel book about a journey across the Trans-Siberian Railway and a diary-like account of an expedition to Iran. The next two books were connected with the biographies of Russian thinkers: a graphic novel about Andrei Sakharov and a comic about Leo Tolstoy. For her new book, Katia teamed up with historian Andrey Aksenov to create a large book about the vivid life of the Russian Empire.

She is interested in cartography, and her maps can be found in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Vladivostok, Magadan, Vladikavkaz, and many other places.

Her illustrations have repeatedly taken part in exhibitions and won Russian and international competitions, from the “Image of the Book” contest to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.