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]
She has been published in The Paris Review, [7] The New York Times , [8] [9] and The New Yorker. [10]
Flowers is a recipient of the 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, [11] [12] won the 2020 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for Hot Comb, [13] and won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Short Story for "Hot Comb". [14]
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. [15] [16]
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