Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist, artist and educator.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, The Paris Review, Nautilus, and The Guardian, among many other outlets. Since 2019 she has been the artist-in-residence at Town Clock, CDC, teaching art to the survivors that live there. Her comic, “The Gift of Time”, is based on that experience and originally ran on Slate.com.  Her acclaimed comic Normel Person was the last weekly comic strip to run in The Village Voice. Her short works Being an Artist and a Mother won the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, and Carriers won the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators. Other notable works include her memoir Girl Stories, as well as Mother’s Walk, Inside Vineyland, andGoddess of War. She has also received two Ignatz Awards. Her work has been featured twice in The Best American Comics.  Now she’s working on her next graphic memoir. 

Website: https://laurenweinstein.com/

Instagram: @vineshtein

Artist photo by Lisa Whiteman