Ebony Flowers

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Ebony Flowers speaking at the Small Press Expo in November 2019.

Ebony Victoria Flowers is an American prose writer [1] and cartoonist [2] who lives in Denver. [3] Flowers authored the graphic novel Hot Comb (2019), which contains several short story comics that are a mix of autobiographical and fiction. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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She has been published in The Paris Review, [7] The New York Times , [8] [9] and The New Yorker. [10]

Accolades

Flowers is a recipient of the 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, [11] [12] won the 2019 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for My Lil Sister Lena [13] and the 2020 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for Hot Comb, [14] and won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Short Story for "Hot Comb". [15]

Education

Flowers received her B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park (2002) in Applied Biological Anthropology, her M.S. and her 2017 PhD (titled 'DrawBridge' ) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Curriculum and Instruction. [16] [17]

References

  1. ↑ "Spring 2016 Contributors". Nashville Review. 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  2. ↑ "Shannon O'Circle Part One". Nashville Review. 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  3. 1 2 Bohlen, Teague (2019-06-18). "Denver's Ebony Flowers Debuts Graphic Novel Hot Comb". Westword. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  4. ↑ "DQHQ PR: Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers in Spring 2019". Drawn & Quarterly. 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  5. ↑ "'Little Lulu' Headlines Drawn & Quarterly's Spring 2019 Releases" . Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  6. ↑ "D+Q announces 2019 releases at SDCC". Wow Cool. 2018-07-20. Archived from the original on 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  7. ↑ Flowers, Ebony (2019-07-24). "My Lil Sister Lena". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  8. ↑ Flowers, Ebony (2020-09-08). "When Summer Reading Could Win You a Trophy". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  9. ↑ Flowers, Ebony (2020-05-08). "My Last Encounter With Pandemic Parenting". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  10. ↑ Flowers, Ebony. "Lines". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  11. ↑ "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2017". www.ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  12. ↑ "Ebony Flowers receives 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award". Wisconsin Alumni Association. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  13. ↑ Chiu-Tabet, Christopher (September 15, 2019). "2019 Ignatz Awards Winners Announced". Multiversity Comics.
  14. ↑ "SPX 2020 Ignatz Nominees | SPX: The Small Press Expo". Archived from the original on 2021-06-30. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  15. ↑ Comic-Con 2020 Eisner Award Winners Announced, by Jamie Lovett, at ComicBook.com; published July 25, 2020 retrieved July 25, 2020
  16. ↑ "DrawBridge". ProQuest. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  17. ↑ Flowers, Ebony Victoria (8 August 2018). "DrawBridge" – via Open WorldCat.
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