Jerelle Kraus is the award-winning New York Times art director whose thirty-year tenure includes a record thirteen years at Op-Ed.
She’s also been an art director at Time & the art director of Ramparts magazine & of Francis Ford Coppola’s City magazine.
The New Yorker & The New York Times magazine have published her writing, including an “On Language” column that subbed for William Safire.
Fluent in 4 languages, she was educated at Swarthmore & Pomona Colleges & l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received an MA from UC Berkeley & aFulbright scholarship to Munich.