Ken Krimstein is a writer and cartoonist, born in Chicago and raised in Deerfield, Illinois, who began drawing at a young age. He graduated from Grinnell College and Northwestern University before moving to New York City. His work has appeared in several cartoon anthologies edited by S. Gross and in others assembled by King Features, and a collection of his will be published by Clarkson Potter in 2010. He has read work as part of “Trumpet Fiction” at KGB bar in New York. Krimstein lives with his wife and three children in Manhattan.