 A native New Yorker, Zina Saunders is the daughter of illustrator Norman Saunders.She attended High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union (dropping out a short way into the course) but also learned much about painting and commercial art from her father.She has illustrated for a variety of publishers (Simon & Schuster, Random House, Scholastic Books, Oxford University Press), while contributing to magazines, including "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times Sunday Book Review", "Time Out New York" and "Outré".