Sarah Leavitt is a cartoonist, writer and professor. Her first book was the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2010). A feature-length animation based on Tangles will be released in 2026.

Sarah is also the author of the award-winning historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess (2019). Her most recent book is Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love (2024), which was nominated for an Eisner Award and a Lambda Literary Award. It’s a collection of short comics about grief and loss that she drew in the first two years after the death of her partner, Donimo. Sarah is an associate professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate comics classes since 2012.

Leavitt is pronounced with a short e like “levitation.”.

Queries: Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency.