John F. Malta was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, and currently lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri. John studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts’ Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program in New York City and is a recipient of the 2012 Xeric grant. His work has been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire Russia, MIT Technology Review, the Boston Globe, The Village Voice, and the Washington Post.
