Rosalind "Roz" Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and the Voice.

In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review. Chast's subjects often deal with domestic and family life.

In a 2006 interview with comedian Steve Martin for the New Yorker Festival, Chast revealed that she enjoys drawing interior scenes — often involving lamps and accentuated wall paper — to serve as the backdrop for her comics. Her comics reflect a "conspiracy of inanimate objects," an expression she credits to her mother. Her first New Yorker cartoon showed a small collection of "Little Things," strangely named, oddly shaped small objects such as "chent," "spak," and "tiv".

Chast's drawing style shuns conventional craft in her figure drawing, perspective, shading, etc.; this approach follows in the footsteps of several other female cartoonists, notably Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Lynda Barry. A significant part of the humor in Chast's cartoons appears in the background and the corners of the frames. Her New Yorker cartoons began as small black-and-white panels, but increasingly she has been using color and her work now often appears over several pages.

Her first cover for The New Yorker was on August 4, 1986, showing a bewildered man in a white coat pointing to an evolutionary chart devoted to ice cream.

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