Nicole Claveloux contributed to the French comics magazines Métal Hurlant (Heavy Metal) and Ah! Nana, and drew a popular comic strip called Grabote. Championed by Harlin Quist, she has also illustrated a number of successful children's books, including an award-winning version of Alice in Wonderland. NYR Comics published her work in The Green Hand and Other Stories in fall 2017. She lives in France.
For NYR Comics, Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated Nicole Claveloux's The Green Hand and Other Stories and Yvan Alagbé's Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures. Born in Manchester, England, he is a longtime resident of New York City.
Edith Zha and Elisabeth Salomon have co-authored several of Nicole Claveloux's stories.
Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine. She is an assistant professor at the New School and her second novel, Something New Under the Sun, is forthcoming from Hogarth Press. She lives in Staten Island, NY.
