Sarah Leavitt is a cartoonist and educator living in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2010). A feature-length animation based on Tangles is in production. She is also the author of the award-winning historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess (2019). Something, Not Nothing will be published in fall 2024. It’s a collection of short comics about grief and loss following the death of her partner, Donimo. Sarah is an assistant 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.

Queries: Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Literary Agency.  Author photo by Jackie Dives.