Career
Previously, he compiled a two-volume guide to the Canadian children"s literature industry, The Storymakers. Volume One, Illustrating Children"s Books: 72 Artists and Illustrators Talk About Their Work, was published in 1999. This was followed in 2000 with Writing Children"s Books: 83 Authors Talk About Their Work.
Personal Life and Krykorka was born in Toronto, Canada, to children"s book illustrator Vladyana Krykorka.
He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1999 with a Bachelor in English and Philosophy and obtained his Master of Arts in 2002.