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Sarah Mirk is a graphic journalist, editor, teacher, zine-maker, and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The Nib, The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR. Mirk is currently a contributing editor at The Nib, where she writes and edits nonfiction comics about history, politics, and identity, and also works as a writer onThe Nib’s animation series. She currently also works as a digital engagement producer for Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where she co-writes the investigative comics series In/Vulnerable, illustrated by Thi Bui. Mirk is the author several books, including Guantanamo Voices, an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison, You Do You: Figuring Out Your Body, Dating, and Sexuality, Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules, the graphic novelOpen Earth, and the self-published collection Year of Zines. She is an adjunct professor in Portland State University’s MFA program in Art and Social Practice, where she teaches a graduate seminar on writing and research.

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2016 is starting off with two milestones for Non-Fiction by Non-Men! This installment marks the tenth interview in the series and the first interview with a graphic artist and writer. This month, E.B. Bartels speaks with writer, cartoonist, and memoirist Liz Prince.

Liz Prince is the author of many collections of comics, including Delayed Replays (Top Shelf Productions, 2008), Alone Forever (Top Shelf Productions, 2014), and Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed (Top Shelf Productions, 2005), which received the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut in 2005 and has since been published in both French and Spanish. Prince’s book Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir (Zest Books, 2014) was named one of Kirkus Review’s best books of 2014. She has also contributed to many anthologies; for a full list, see her website. Prince lives outside of Boston with her cats Wolfman and Dracula.

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