About

Isabel Greenberg is a London based illustrator and writer. Her first graphic novel The Encyclopedia of Early Earth was publushed in 2013 by Jonathan Cape in the UK, Random House in Canada and Little Brown in the US. It has since been translated into French, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. It was nominated for two Eisner awards, won the Best Book catagory at the British comic awards, was one of NPR's 100 books of the year, was the Guardian's graphic novel pick of the month and was in the New York Times Graphic Books best seller list.

Her second graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero is released in September 2016.

She studied illustration at the University of Brighton and since graduating has worked for a variety of clients including The Guardian, Nobrow Press, The National Trust, First Second and The New York Times. In 2011 she won the Observer Jonathan Cape Graphic short story prize. She exhibited work in the Memory Palace exhibition at the V&A, and was a select at Pick Me Up 2014 at Somerset House.