Sarah Leavitt is a cartoonist and educator whose particular areas of interest include autobiographical comics, formal experimentation in comics, and comics pedagogy – developing strategies for teaching comics creation as well as exploring how comics creation shapes students’ work in other forms of writing. Sarah has been developing and teaching comics classes in the UBC School of Creative Writing since 2012.

Sarah’s published books include Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2010) and Agnes, Murderess (2019). Her current work-in-progress is a collection of short, experimental comics about her partner’s death in 2020.