Ali Fitzgerald


Ali Fitzgerald is an American comic author, journalist and artist. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. In 2018, she published Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops In Refugee Shelters And Other Stories From A New Europe, a graphic non-fiction book about the diverse experiences of exile in Berlin, with Fantagraphics. It was listed as one of the best comics of 2018 by Vulture and won the Independent Publisher's Gold award for best graphic book of 2019.

Biography

Ali Fitzgerald was born in 1983 in Oakland, California. She studied art and creative writing at Davidson College in North Carolina, where she drew regularly for the college newspaper, The Davidsonian. She attended a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, before going to University of Texas, where she got an MFA in painting. She moved to Berlin, Germany, in 2009, where she wrote for Art21. In 2020, she attended a comic-artist residency at the Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, France.

Works

  • Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops In Refugee Shelters And Other Stories From A New Europe, Fantagraphics, 2018.
  • Réfugiés à Berlin, Editions Presque-Lune, 2019.
  • "Hungover Bear and Friends," McSweeney's, 2013–2016.
  • "Bermuda Square," The Cut, 2016–2017.
  • "America!" The New Yorker, since 2018.
  • "The Museum of Purgatory," The New Yorker, December 21, 2020.
  • "Vanishing Panels: The secret history of Patricia Highsmith’s career in comics," The New Yorker, December 18, 2023.