This Monday's guest announcement is Maia Kobabe!

Before the 2020 festival was canceled, we’d been planning to present a panel about graphic memoirs, a burgeoning literary genre where you’ll find some of the most interesting and innovative work now being produced. Two years later, we still love graphic memoirs, and so we’re trying again - and we’re very pleased to announce that Maia Kobabe will be joining us in April to participate on that panel!

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, was published in May 2019. Maia's short comics have been published by The New Yorker, The Nib, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies including The Secret Loves of Geeks, Faster Than Light, Y’All, Gothic Tales of Haunted Love, Advanced Death Saves, Be Gay, Do Comics and The Most Important Comic Book On Earth: Stories to Save the World. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.