Born in the former USSR and raised a proud citizen of Chicago, Julia
Alekseyeva is an author-illustrator as well as an academic. She is a PhD
candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard, specializing in the avant-garde
and film practices in France, Japan, and the former USSR. Julia has received
press from publications such as Reuters, the New York Times, and Bloomberg
Business for illustrating the first graphic novel legal brief, submitted as an
amicus brief in USA vs. Apple. She has lived in Kiev, Chicago, New York City,
Paris, Cambridge, Kanazawa, and Yokohama, and currently lives in Brooklyn with
her partner Brandon and a dog named Leopold Bloom.